Word: germaniae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Semitism!" he wrote a friend. "It is the reason for the abrupt break with my sister." And to another: "I will not be associated with anybody who has any part in this lying race-swindle." Elisabeth married Forster and went off with him to Paraguay to start a "Nueva Germania" of 100% blue-eyed, red-bearded Teutons. The colony flopped. Forster committed suicide, and Elisabeth bounced back to Europe just in time to take care of Friedrich. who had suddenly and finally collapsed...
...trading company, deprived of our traditional steelmaking role. We needed new blood, a new approach, a fresh policy. I decided we should start looking for a man who did not know steel." Krupp found his man in 40-year-old Berthold Beitz, the breezy general director of the Iduna-Germania Insurance Co., who had boosted his company from 16th to third place in postwar Germany. Krupp met Beitz through a mutual friend, studied him carefully for months before finally asking him to become Krupp's general director. Said Beitz: "I thought the Krupps were trying to borrow some money...
Aside from sports cars (he has two) and photography, Krupp's chief recreation is his 66-ft. schooner Germania V, on which he cruises for one or two months a year. Krupp also likes to play skat-at one-tenth of a pfennig a point...
Over Kiel, Knoke had time to watch the heavy babies in action. "They dump their load right on the Germania shipyards. I am impressed by the precision with which those bastards bomb; it is fantastic." But precision had its price: by the end of 1943, Knoke had shot down 20 Allied planes, and had himself been shot down twice. A fat man in scarlet boots rewarded him with the Gold Cross...
...land of Goethe and Krupp told of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany, at prayer in his chapel. From the vaults below, he heard a German voice groaning: "Adenauer, Adenauer, save me." The Chancellor crossed himself and dug downwards towards the voice. In a pit strewn with ruins he found Germania crucified, and stooped to draw out the nails clamping his nation's feet to a cross made by the Allies. As the nails came loose, Germania sprang up, and with a mighty kick booted Adenauer out of the chapel...