Word: heinrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. The Flute was given first, before a sellout audience in the 300-year-old riding arena, carved out of the Monchsberg by the archbishops of Salzburg. "It is Mozart's turn," explained old Baron Heinrich Puthon, the festival's president. "Next year we will open with Fidelio so Beethoven will not be mad at us." For the Flute, the State Opera had no single great voice to offer, but its ensemble singing was highly polished; the acting had lightness and pace...
...Munich denazification court, Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, who brought Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun together, testified that the Fiihrer's relations with Eva were platonic to the end. Said Hoffman: "Eva never was alone when she met Herr Hitler in the evening. In this respect, Herr Hitler was very infantile...
...nice. As undersecretary in Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry, he was found guilty of preparing for aggressive war and crimes against humanity, sentenced to seven years in prison. In rapid succession, the judges pronounced sentence on 19 of the defendants, acquitted only two. Among the condemned: Hans Heinrich Lammers, 69, one-eyed chief of the Reich Chancellery and Hitler's man of all work, 20 years; Wilhelm Keppler, Hitler's economic adviser, ten years. When mousy little Otto Dietrich, Hitler's press chief, heard his sentence he turned to one of his tall G.I. guards, held...
Died. Field Marshal Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, 67, onetime commander in chief of the German army (1938-41); of coronary thrombosis; in Hamburg, Germany, where he awaited trial as a war criminal. Son of a Prussian cavalry general, Brauchitsch increased the Wehrmacht's motorized divisions from two to six, occupied the Sudetenland, led the 18-day blitz of Poland, took Norway, Belgium, Holland, France, Yugoslavia and Greece...
...York World's Fair, chairman of countless societies including the Y.M.C.A., the Swedish Association to Promote Swimming, the International Red Cross. In the last months of World War II he shuttled back & forth between Sweden and Germany; he arranged for the exchange of war prisoners, started negotiations with Heinrich Himmler for Germany's surrender. He remained true to the Scout motto: Alltid Redo (Be Prepared). When the U.N. appointed him its mediator in Palestine, he was not only ready, but eager...