Word: hamburger
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...force file clerk, Hans-Jurgen Jenzowski, who was arrested while handing secret documents to an East German female spy. In May, two other West Germans in sensitive positions-Dagmar Kahlig-Scheffler, a secretary in the Bonn chancellery's foreign affairs section, and Rolf Grunert, chief of the Hamburg police criminal division-were arrested for giving classified documents to East German agents...
...author, who has written books on the Luftwaffe and the firebombing of Dresden, reveals strange priorities of indignation. "The war in the air," he writes, "reached a climax in prenuclear barbarism as over 40,000 civilians were burned, blasted, or poisoned to death in Hamburg." Irving does not raise his voice in quite that way when confronting the systematic liquidation of 6 million European Jews...
Bonn, too, professed amazement and "regret"-even though officials could barely conceal their relief. Editorialized Hamburg's Bild Zeitung: "France lies weak, cowardly and humbled on its knees. The worst of it is, nobody knows whether any other European country, West Germany included, might not have done the same." Even pro-government French newspapers condemned Abu Daoud's release. "When acts so cruelly belie words, we are no longer in the political realm," said Le Figaro...
Like a lot of silly movies, Voyage of the Damned is extracted from a serious idea-in this case one with historical foundation. In 1939, as part of a propaganda effort, the Nazis bundled Jews from all levels of German life, privileged to deprived, onto a Hamburg-Amerika liner, the St. Louis. The ship was bound out of Hamburg to Havana, Cuba, where the passengers understood they could disembark if they chose. Once in Havana harbor, however, the Jews were not allowed off the ship. Their landing permits had been deliberately scrambled by the Cuban government in league with...
...Davis Cup matches during his 23-year career; his five-set loss to American Don Budge in 1937 still ranks as one of the greatest matches in tennis history. Von Cramm retired from competitive tennis in the mid-'50s, when he became an exporter in Hamburg. He married Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Hutton in 1955; they were divorced...