Word: guttmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Princess Elsa of Liechtenstein, 72, widow of the late Franz I, onetime ruler of the postage-stamp principality nestled between Austria and Switzerland; of a heart attack; at Lake Vitznau, Switzerland. Granddaughter of a wealthy Viennese banker, Elsa de Guttmann secretly married Franz in 1921 (she was Jewish; he a Roman Catholic). When the 76-year-old Prince succeeded to the throne in 1929, the couple went through a public ceremony. After the Austrian Anschluss, Franz began to feel Nazi pressure because of his non-Aryan wife, quietly abdicated because he was getting...