Word: goslar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thin, balding man who walked into the Defense Ministry at Bonn was exactly what the new Bundeswehr wanted. He introduced himself as Herr Doktor Robert Schneider with degrees in medicine, philosophy, psychiatry and law. Unmarried and with a lucrative psychiatric practice in the city of Goslar, Schneider nevertheless wanted to become an army medical officer. "This will mean a personal sacri fice, but money has never been a part of my life," he said nobly. "One must have ideals...
...Hoax. But armies also have bureaucracies. The Defense Ministry, completing its routine file, needed additional documentation on Schneider's German citizenship. The city officials of Goslar could find none, and thus began the first unraveling of a forged life that resulted last week in Robert Schneider's standing trial in Bonn for 52 cases of fraud, 25 cases of falsification of documents, and various charges of unlawfully assuming academic titles. While all Germany guffawed at the hoax pulled on the new German army, the state prosecutor indignantly stated that the accused was plain Robert Schneider, 39, a house...
Resignation Accepted. Local newspapers were outraged. The Soviet zone Communist radio made a big thing of it, incidentally identifying the Marquess as a former suitor of Princess Margaret Rose. After advising Whitehall in London, the British resident officer at Goslar made an apology to Herr Lieberkuehn; Blandford and his cronies paid 40 DM. ($9.90) for damage to Herr Lieberkuehn's property (two broken windows, a trampled garden). The pink coats were ordered into mothballs and the ducal hounds were sent back, tails down, to their home kennels...