Word: frau
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...lines had been hard hit, but Frau Wilhelmine Bracht could not think when business had been better. On Berlin's fashionable Kurfürstendamm, outside "Der Ring," the marriage bureau she had run these 14 years, Berliners crowded around such arresting announcements...
...Frau Koch's husband, the former commander of Buchenwald, was long since executed in one of his own butcher chambers for mishandling Nazi party funds. For the last two years his widow has been kept in closely guarded U.S. Army prisons. Despite this, she was eight months pregnant...
...chivalry of General George S. Patton lived after him in a tale told by a German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said...
...future hatred: "The things happening now to the German people are a humiliation they will never forget." That plump valkyrie, former Actress Emmy Sonnemann Göring, had a specific grievance. Recently one of the camp's hungry rats had taken a bite out of her ankle. Said Frau Göring...
...German women tack their husbands' titles on to their own names. A classic German joke tells of the woman who called herself Frau Hatchet-Murderer Müller...