Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warm and sunny. Near polling booths in bars and cafes beer flowed as on a special holiday. High on the Zugspitze vacationers took time to vote, and from Baltic beaches bathers ambled inland to cast their ballots. "It does not really make much difference who wins," said a German in Marburg, "as long as there is a big turnout...
...slogged in to "protect" Eastern Poland in 1939, Jan Olechny was sure the Russians would take action against antiCommunists. One chilly morning he said goodbye to his wife and twelve-year-old son Riszard, set out with a knapsack to walk through the lines and join some cousins in German-held Cracow...
...poignant little fräulein of a song, German-born Lilli Marlene had Axis and Allied troops alike seething and sighing over her during World...
Thompson went to LIFE in October 1937. In 1942 he joined the Army as an armored force captain, was transferred to the Air Force to found and edit Impact, a LiFE-like confidential air intelligence magazine. He wound up in 1944 as a lieutenant colonel in charge of German air force intelligence at SHAEF, was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Order of the British Empire...
Married. Don Jaime, 41, Duke of Segovia, second son and onetime heir apparent of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain (deposed 1931, died in exile 1941), who renounced his claim to the throne in 1933; and Charlotte Tiedemann, German opera singer; in Innsbruck, Austria. Born a deaf mute into a family racked by the "Bourbon curse" of hemophilia, Don Jaime learned to talk intelligibly in three languages, remains healthy...