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Adolf Hitler was the subject of some nasty gossip last week. Burbled the wife of Nazi Secretary of State Otto Meissner (now awaiting trial at Dachau): the Fuhrer had a son, Helmuth, by Frau Goebbels, and "I am the only survivor who knows it." It all began, she confided to newshawks, in the summer of 1934. "At that time Frau Goebbels was on bad terms with her husband.. . . Hitler visited her so regularly in her apartment that their relations were obvious. . . . They seemed lost in each other's company, especially when love songs were played. Later, their relations...
...Strauss's own choice for the part. A soprano prodigy ("In my cradle I had tones") she sang Aïda at the Vienna State Opera Company when she was 18. Four years later Strauss heard her sing Rosenkavalier. He put her into the leads in Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten...
Emmy Sonnemann also made a try at a theatrical comeback, but it was no go. Actress Emmy?who shot to fame by becoming Frau Hermann Göring?got no further than a denazification board, which turned down her application to get back into show business...
...days before the sentences most of the 21 defendants in the greatest criminal trial in world history had said their farewells to their wives: Emmy Göring, Frau von Ribbentrop, Frau Schacht, et al. Now, for those who had escaped death there was ahead a fast trip to prison. For the rest, the eleven who had been sentenced to death, there was the gallows, reportedly within two weeks "in the Nürnberg area...
Since her daughter Sigrid's wedding, the event of the season, dignified Frau Hans Frank (her husband was the former governor of Poland) has been taking things easier, wining and dining only such close friends as Frau Wilhelm Frick and Frau Walther Funk...