Word: heinrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George B. Sohier Prize of $250, for the best honors thesis in English or Modern Literature, was divided between Mrs. Sibyilo O. Crane, Radcliffe '42, of Cambridge, Mass., for her thesis "Heinrich Heine: Critic of Political and Social Ideas in France under the July Monarchy"; and Frederic G. Ranney, Jr. '42, of London, England, for his thesis, "Alien Plain: A Study of Primitive Feeling in Rudyard Kipling's Verse...
...Shortly after he came to power, Hitler met healthy, olive-skinned Eva Braun, 20 years his junior, assistant to his official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. For seven years she was Hitler's mistress, with her own apartments in Berlin's Reich Chancellery and at Berchtesgaden. Under her influence he shifted from nightshirts to pajamas. He gave her an engagement ring and bought a custom-built Mercedes intended as a wedding present. But war, not Eva Braun, claimed Adolf Hitler...
...Heinrich Himmler gets the credit for that," Heydrich said. "He's No. 2 Nazi now and head of all the German police. But I was the one who did it. I built up the spy system, even in the Army. And I've been the butcher boy. Ask the Poles about me, or the French saboteurs, or the Dutch and the Belgians and the Norwegians. We've shot or hanged more than 400,000, not counting all who die in tue concentration camps. There's a rhyme in Germany which goes: 'Himmler der Heuchler, Heydrich...
...Hilf-skasse racket, whereby money supposedly collected for injured Storm Troopers was turned over to Nazi leaders. Bormann enjoyed Party finance; in 1936 he bought a Mercedes-Benz deluxe for 38,000 marks. He rose to be Hess's administrative right hand, also got close to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler...
Heydrich managed to keep his name out of the papers until three or four years ago. He stood in the shadow behind the lurid light of Heinrich Himmler, head of all the German police. Himmler's top man for the uniformed police is General Kurt Daluege; for the Gestapo, Heydrich. But Heydrich is much more powerful than Daluege, and he might, if it came to a test, prove more powerful even than Himmler. He knows everything that Himmler knows and he has spies everywhere, even in the lairs of his closest associates. For the time being all three...