Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...described was Communist "General Gomez," commander of the Loyalist XIII Brigade, later chief of staff of all the International Brigades. He was really Hans Zaisser, born in 1893 in the Ruhr. In World War I, Zaisser fought as a German noncom. Later he joined the Red military organization (M-Apparat), was a leader in the 1923 abortive uprisings in the Rhineland. When Hitler came in, he fled to Soviet Russia...
After World War II Zaisser returned to Germany, became Minister of the Interior in Saxony. Last August he received a new title: Chef der Abteilung für Schulung bei der deutschen Verwaltung des Inneren (Chief of the Division for Training Connected with the German Administration of the Interior). The title was a fancy cover for his real job, head of the Bereitschaften-cadre army...
...officers, carefully screened P.W.s and recruited youths. Then he set them up in Bereitschaften under direct control of the Russians. The ready squads, of 250 men each, are armed with rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and light artillery. In equipment they have a better start than did the bootleg German army of the '20s, which was also founded on a cadre of the best officer material...
...that laymen call each organism by its right name, but in the privacy of their own laboratories, they often call them all "bugs." *From the Greek for "white twisted fungus." *With nearly all microorganisms, a species is made up of many strains which may differ as much as a German shepherd differs from a Pekingese in the dog species. *Marketed by Parke, Davis & Co., which financed Burkholder's work, under the trade name Chloromycetin (pronounced Chloromy...
Died. Vladimir Hurban, 66, Czechoslovakia's veteran diplomat, onetime minister (1936-43) and ambassador (1943-46) to the U.S., who in 1939 refused the German demand that he surrender his embassy, thereafter stood as a wartime symbol of resistance to Naziism; of a heart ailment; in Prague...