Word: funk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the Committee are William J. Barber '46, Sherman M. Funk '50, Richard L. Hanford '49, and Warren G. Vander Maas...
Present, as at a Kaffeeklatsch in the good old days, were Frau Field Marshal Göring, Frau Deputy Führer Hess, Frau Reichsminister Funk, Frau Governor General Frank, Frau Youth Leader von Schirach.* These wives and widows of Germany's war criminals awaited their own judgment day in a camp near Augsburg. Bavaria's Denazification Ministry was about to try them as "profiteers...
...never were Nazis before," snarled Henrietta von Schirach, when the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins visited the camp last week. "Please tell your General Clay I hope he will not treat me in such a fashion that my children will grow up to hate America." Luise Funk, a witch-eyed redhead, echoed this threat of 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...
...classes of 30, more than 500 German boys & girls have already "graduated" from St. Michael's. Many were onetime members of the Hitler Youth, some were professed atheists and agnostics, one was the nephew of Nazi Minister of Economics Walther Funk. Results have been more encouraging than even Founder Nye hoped for. Nearly all the students bombard the lecturers with questions. Of a recent class made up exclusively of boys from the Adolf-Hitler-Schule at Sonthofen, 27 said that they were deeply impressed; two were unimpressed; the 30th decided to become a priest...
...Augsburg, denazification authorities jailed Emmy Göring for trial on a charge of having been a Nazi. Also jailed after long thought: the widow of Poland's Governor General Hans Frank, the wives of ex-President of the Reichsbank Walther Funk, ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach...