Word: fritsche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state of Paraná. They saw none of them, and the steep, jungle-tangled Serra dos Dourados mountains in the western part of the state deflected both settlers, missionaries and slave hunters. Nothing more was reported about the primitives until 1906, when a Czech scientist named Albert Fritsch made a field trip into the region and met some comparatively advanced Indians dragging three captives who spoke an unknown tongue. He discovered that the captives called themselves Xetsá (pronounced shee-tahss). He studied their language superficially and then apparently dismissed them as a branch of the well-known Guarani people...
...ring's "Clean Hands." "Above politics" himself, Kesselring felt only one slight qualm about the Nazis in the years before World War II. That was in 1938, when the army's Chief of Staff Werner von Fritsch was railroaded out of his post on trumped-up charges of sexual perversion. Kesselring's conscience was easily salved, however, when his personal boss, Goring, told him with "satisfaction in his eyes . . . how he had succeeded in unmasking the informer." Concludes Kesselring: "I had not the slightest doubt that Göring's hands were clean. I presumed...
Werner David went home from the Agfa plant that night to a meal of potato and carrots. Behind locked doors, he tuned his radio to West Berlin's U.S.-operated radio RIAS and heard about the Berlin protest march. It happened almost the same way at Wolfgang Fritsch's house. As he and his wife switched off the radio and went to bed, he muttered: "It's happened. It's happened." Next morning, at the Agfa plant, the uranium pits, the dockworks at Rostock, the heavy-machinery works in Magdeburg, at the center of Red Berlin...
...Socialist ministers of Prussia; he obeyed. The ranking general when Hitler shortly came to power, von Rundstedt did nothing to hobble the Führer, acquiesced-however unwillingly-in Hitler's assaults on the officer corps. Six years later, he saw his friend and colleague, Werner von Fritsch, sacked and tried on a trumped-up morality charge. Von Rundstedt protested. By that time he saw that the Nazis' course was leading to war with Britain, which he feared, and he asked for retirement. In 1939, Hitler called him back to command an army group in Poland; von Rundstedt...