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Beginning on July 24, 1943, Hamburg was savaged six times in 10 days. Fire storms created by British incendiary bombs raised flames whirling at 100 to 150 m.p.h., with temperatures of 1000 degreesC at their cores. Eight hundred thousand people were left homeless, and some 50,000 were killed. Cities throughout Germany, including Berlin, were similarly razed. The mass bombings would alternate between British night attacks and American daytime raids, coming almost daily...
...Rich Jews" operating in Seville and Lisbon and Hamburg and Newport, R.I., and other cities financed the African slave trade...
...been stiff-necked in the extreme. So far, Stanford has offered to return $1.35 million to the government. Kennedy scoffed at resignation in interviews during Stanford's spring commencement. But six weeks of consultations and soul-searching convinced him of the folly of such a stubborn posture. As David Hamburg, a Stanford trustee and president of the Carnegie Corporation, put it, "He decided as a sort of symbol of the troubles, he'd better step aside, even though he loved the position and the university...
Personal: Born December 25, 1937 in Hamburg, Germany. Married, one daughter...
Education: Universities of Freiberg i.Br. and Hamburg, law degree...