Word: frau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right Seat. Impressed by Richter's Ph.D. and by his vigorous denial of Nazi sympathies, Hanover school authorities gave him a job as a mathematics teacher. Sure enough, he took good care of Frau Roessler-in fact, he even married his old captain's widow, and adopted her four children...
...said the judges: to throw out Frau von Ribbentrop's contract on such reasoning would be tantamount to Sippenhaft. Freely translated, Sippenhaft means the arrest or punishment of relatives for offenses done by another of the family-an old practice of Hitler's and Stalin's. The court's order: Otto must hire Cousin Rudolf within two years, make him a partner in another two years. By that time, January 1956, the learned court predicted, Western civilization will no longer be scared away or horrified by the name of Ribbentrop...
...began reading Catholic literature, later joined a study group. In 1949, shortly after his wife became a Catholic, Goethe entered the church himself. His bishop, the Rt. Rev. Albert Stohr of Mainz, asked special permission from the Pope for Goethe to become a priest while continuing to live with Frau Goethe, "as brother & sister." The Goethes, who are childless, expect to live in Mainz, where Goethe will do organizational work with groups of converts...
...Although "Frau X" defended Communism for several hours, she did not report Mr. Goodman's anti-Communist views to her superiors, as her duty clearly indicated. Had she done so, Mr. Goodman's adventures might have ended on a far more serious note By her action, "Fran X" clearly indicated that the did not approve of Communist police methods, which she herself may by now have sampled as a result of Mr. Goodman's accurate description of her. Anyone so obviously concerned with human freedom and decency as Mr. Goodman could have at least left her description too vague...
Your reference to me and "Frau X" is a gross distortion. As readers of the story know, "Frau X's" only crime was to defend Communism consistently in a conversation lasting several hours...