Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 112,000, including the new "alert police" (who were wearing green-dyed Luftwaffe uniforms), were under arms. Probable commander of the "alert" force was German General Walther von Seydlitz,* survivor of Stalingrad and a key figure of the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee. On the evening of Oct. 153 special Russian plane landed him at Johannisthal-Schbneweide airfield near Berlin; then he was whisked to Soviet military headquarters at Karlshorst...
...fellow Communists, Bechler was succinct. Said he recently: "We have until 1950, at the latest, to liquidate the bourgeois parties. By that time, the state police will be trebled and so well trained that, with the help of them and of the armed action committees, the S.E.D. [meaning the German Communist Party] can take power...
...First synthesized by a German chemist in 1874, but not put to practical...
...Decent Character. His father was a bluff, warmhearted German-Jewish immigrant who had achieved his principal ambition-to become an American. Julius Oppenheimer had also made a very considerable success as a Manhattan textile importer: the Oppenheimers had a country house at Islip, N.Y., a sunny, nine-room apartment on Riverside Drive with three Van Gogh originals hanging in the living room. Julius doted on his son, took him to Europe four times and asked only that the boy be "a decent character...
Comes the Revolution. It was at a Pasadena party in 1939 that Robert Oppenheimer, then 35, met Katherine Puening Harrison. A small, German-born brunette, Mrs. Harrison was the wife of a radiologist, and herself a graduate student in plant physiology at U.C.L.A. A year later, after the Harrisons were divorced, Kitty and Robert were married. Of the subsequent revolution in his habits, Oppenheimer says: "A certain stuffiness overcame...