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...Season. In Berchtesgaden, Germany, Georg Kuesswetter was caught setting fire to Alpine skiing huts, told the court: "I wanted to scare away all those stupid tourists...
...presses for the Air Force (TIME, March 3). As Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Materiel after the war, K. B. Wolfe was concerned over the backward state of U.S. aircraft armament. Convinced that private enterprise could do a better job than the Army, he talked to Emil Georg Bührle, owner of Oerlikon and probably Switzerland's richest...
...London, George Mansfield, 39, farmer and naturalized British subject since 1945, filed for the right to resume his full and legal name: Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christof von Preussen. Said the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II: "It is only a question of establishing legally my correct family name and title. The name Mansfield was merely a convenience in my business dealings on the farm...
...alone), had ordered the extermination of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto; Paul Blobel, Werner Braune, Otto Ohlendorf and Erich Naumann had supervised the murder of 2,000,000 people, mostly Jews, gypsies and Communist-suspects, in the conquered lands of Eastern Europe; Hans Schmidt was adjutant of Buchenwald; Georg Schallermair had run the mass murder machine at Dachau. They were the most wretched specimens of 28 Nazis condemned by a U.S. war crimes court in 1946 and 1947. The 21 others had been reprieved by U.S. authorities...
...Good Fool. Berg, who died at 50 in 1935, got the idea for Wozzeck in a "drama fragment" by the gifted but short-lived German playwright, Georg Büchner (1813-37). In the stormy aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and in a period of liberal revolutions, Büchner had written the tragedy of a clodlike Prussian soldier named Franz Wozzeck...