Word: georgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been added. There was still Mozart nachtmusik by candlelight under the stars, and a performance of the Marriage of Figaro. But the big news was Danton's Death, composed by young (28) Gottfried von Einem, Austria's newest claim to musical fame. Einem had set to music Georg Büchner's 1834 drama of the French Revolution: he was inspired, he said, by the plot on Hitler's life, and the Nürnberg trials. Einem and his father, trying to escape to England in 1938, were jailed by the Nazis; his mother was imprisoned...
Died. Baron Georg von Trapp, 67, World War I chief of Austria's tiny submarine fleet, manager and nonsinging head of the Trapp Family Singers; of cancer, in Stowe, Vt. The choir (buxom Baroness von Trapp, seven daughters and two sons), ran away from the Nazis in 1938, became a top U.S. concert attraction...
...year-old play may need a new director. Ex-Director Georg Lang, 6 ft. 5 in., whose enormous hands produce some of the world's finest woodcarving, became a Nazi in 1934. Later, when the village's propaganda chief went to war, Georg made himself useful designing Nazi posters and building backdrops for visits of party bigwigs...
...indicted 24 former German industrialists, all officials of I. G. Farben Co., as war criminals, the first such indictment against businessmen in history. Among those whom it placed in the same category as Hitler and Göring were Farben's board chairman Hermann Schmitz and Georg von Schnitzler, sales manager, who were mainly responsible for the growth of Farben into the world's most powerful chemical giant. The U.S. charged the 24 civilians with fomenting and waging aggressive war, mass murder, plunder and "complete synchronization" with the Nazi High Command. The burden of the indictment was that...
...Caribbean on a cattle boat, lay on the beach for a year, playing in tinny Latin bands from Havana to Panama. In the swing boom of the mid-'30s, he had a brief burst of glory with a band that included such jazz names as George Wettling, Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russell, Georg Brunis and Mel Powell...