Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gaudiest feather in his cap was his command of the Stalingrad relief campaign. Rokossovsky's forces-tanks, infantry, artillery, aircraft and cavalry-crossed the Don to form a ring around Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus' 22 divisions, anticipated the point of a German counterattack, and in savage and protracted battle defeated the powerful Panzer army of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein. It was Rokossovsky who signed the demand for capitulation sent to Paulus, which was rejected and which led to the final destruction of Hitler's Stalingrad army. It was the greatest single victory...
Wherever Benito Mussolini was, he passed his 60th birthday there. A deflated Mr. Toad, no longer could he swell visibly and let himself go with uplifted voice before supposedly enraptured audiences. From his ex-colleague Adolf Hitler came an anniversary gift: the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, who had written: "I teach you the Superman. . . . Thou hast made danger thy calling; therein is nothing contemptible." But from his ex-people came only bitter remembrance. Milan's Corriere della Sera called him "an aged corrupter," now as good as buried...
...purists are all the more commendable. They're well on their way toward obtaining the necessary angels and permission, and some Saturday soon they hope to have Art Hodes and his band, including Mezz Mesirow, down from the Lawrence Hofbrau, for an afternoon-long jam session. As Johann Cristoph Friedrich von Schiller used to say, "Freude...
Last Friday morning the men were welcomed to the University at a short meeting. Colonel William S. Wood, Senior Officer of all Army units here spoke, as well as their own leaders, Professor Friedrich and Captain Magruder
...Identified as Dr, Friedrich Sieburg, one-time Paris correpondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung and one of Paul Joseph Goebbel's crack propagandists...