Word: heinrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East and West. From his father, Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi, the boy also learned the "oneness" of the European idea. The Coudenhoves originally rose to great estate in The Netherlands and Belgium. They followed their dukes from the Low Countries into Austria when the French Revolution turned Europe upside down. The Kalergis originated as a family with a great name in Grecian Crete. Eventually the Coudenhoves and the Kalergis came together, but only after mixing their bloods with the blood of Balts, Germans, Norwegians and Polish Russians. Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi's union with a Japanese girl was quite in line...
None paid closer heed than soft-faced, whip-lipped Heinrich Himmler (TIME, Oct. 18). As the Minister of Interior, appointed less than three months ago (see cut), he stood alert to nip the rise of "any traitor chief...
Beginnings. Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich in 1900, the son of a Catholic schoolteacher. At 15, Heinrich orated with high-pitched spirit against Social Democrats and Communists, and the schoolmaster of his Gymnasium told him: "You should be a Government Minister." His father told him that he was a potential criminal...
...completely suspended on Aug. 1; the coal ration this year will be 70% of the 1941 allowance-and in that winter city-dwellers wore overcoats in their homes and there was hot water just one day each week. It was in these circumstances that Hitler, on Aug. 25, appointed Heinrich Himmler Minister of the Interior, with full powers over the home front. Soon trials and executions of "defeatists" began. Himmler had to warn Party members that they would henceforth wear their Party badges or go to concentration camps. A Gestapo "observer" was assigned to every German regiment...
Propagandist Goebbels' words had long since failed. When heads fall, it will not be Goebbels who cuts them off. Until his own head falls, it will be Heinrich Himmler who swings...