Word: friedrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friedrich Schönemann that you list as Professor of America in the course offered by the University of Berlin for "the training of governors for conquered provinces" is evidently the Dr. Schönemann who was exchange professor at the University of Nebraska four or five years ago. At that time he made no particular attempt to hide his Nazi aspirations or activities. At least he spoke rather openly of both to me, in return for some fairly patient listening to the Herr Doktor's story of his kidney trouble. At that time I was writing a novel...
...Profanely ironic is the choice of Bishop Friedrich Franz Ernest von Bodelschwingh for the Nazi-perverted steal of TIME'S Niemöller cover. Called the "poor man's bishop," gentle, patriarchal, immensely popular Bishop von Bodelschwingh defied Hitler in June 1933, resigned as Reich Bishop of the German Evangelical Church one month after taking office. Refusing high office in the church's home missions, he helped organize (with Niemöller) the militant anti-Nazi Pastors' Emergency Federation...
...important, is proceeding according to plan: the training of governors for conquered provinces. At the University of Berlin 600 were enrolled in a new "Faculty for the Study of Foreign Countries and Foreign Languages," where each man specialized in a foreign country of his choice. Professor for America: Dr. Friedrich Schonemann, a onetime Harvard teacher. At Marburg University there is a special department for training future bureaucrats for Britain...
...still ambitious to be all labor's boss (see p. 14); ex-Vice President Charles Gates Dawes ("Hell'n Maria"); Philadelphia Industrialist Joseph Henry Scattergood, Quaker; and an oldtime opera star, Soprano Geraldine Farrar, now 59, in her youth a favorite of Germany's Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (she was once called "The Darling of the Heir...
General Electric of Germany is the sprawling Siemens concern, manufacturing all kinds of electrical equipment from huge hydro-electric plants to telephones. Head of the Siemens firms since 1919 has been the youngest son of their founder, tall, frank-faced Carl Friedrich von Siemens...