Word: gertrudes
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Under his real name of Colonel General August Heiszmeyer, Stuckebrock had been head of the "Ubergestapo"-the Supreme SS Tribunal, the Gestapo of the Gestapo. As Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Frau Stuckebrock was Hitler's No. 1 Nazi woman, director of all the women's organizations in the Reich. According to Nürnberg's war criminals' list, Heiszmeyer was "presumed dead," Scholtz-Klink was "dead." Witnesses had "identified" her body among those removed from Hitler's Berlin air-raid bunker...
Near the Swiss border, Frau Gertrud Heissmeyer Scholtz-Klink, Reichsfrauen-führerin of all the Nazi women's organizations, was reported to have taken her life...
...Adolf Hitler was introduced to a shapely, blue-eyed, indubitably Aryan Hamfran named Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, mother of four. Five years later she was Reichsfrauenführerin (leader of German women), entrusted with the job of making German women fit and productive mates for Nazi men. Her credo: "We obey unconditionally." Her 1939 Mother's Day message said: "We bring the fruits of motherhood to the Führer and say to him: 'It is the best that we have, therefore it belongs...
...husky, seasoned Wagnerian troupers as could be found in any opera house the world over. Some of them (Elisabeth Rethberg, Lotte Lehmann, Friedrich Schorr, Emanuel List) were veterans of leading German and Austrian opera houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior, for 14 years the Met's leading Tristan, Siegmund, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser...
Other new singers were less impressive. Vina Bovy sang carelessly, seldom felt any obligation to act (TIME, Jan. 18). When Gertrud Ruenger, originally a contralto at the Vienna Staatsoper, took the soprano role of Brünnhilde, she sounded shrill and lifeless. John Brownlee, a young Australian baritone, made an indifferent Rigoletto. But Kerstin Thorborg raised the recruits' average with a splendid Fricka...