Word: herr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his apparatus is working right, Dr. Kreutzer claims that fish swim to their deaths as if bewitched. The Herr Doktor turns on the current; the fish point dutifully toward the electrode. When he makes the current sing its pied-piper song, the fish wiggle and waggle in time with the subtle pulses. Glassy-eyed and helpless, they swim toward the electrode which leads to the frying...
...Herr Heuss, jovial, loquacious and witty, has the nimble mind of a hard-digging student. In his 65 years he has been a professor of political science, a biographer, an art critic, a newspaper publisher and an amateur artist. He is an old-fashioned German politician, from his high white collar to his economic liberalism of the Manchester laissez-faire school...
...that he had it, his thoughts went back to his snug flat near Stuttgart, his cozy book-lined study with the apple branches brushing the windows. When reporters asked him if he wished to be addressed as "Excellency," Heuss snapped: "Certainly not! To everybody and anybody, I shall remain Herr Heuss...
...Herr Heuss's first official act as President of Germany was to nominate Konrad Adenauer, leader of the largest (Christian Democratic) party, as Chancellor. When ratification came up for vote in the Bundestag, Adenauer squeaked through by one vote-he needed 202 of the 402 votes, and he got 202. It was a shaky start for the new coalition regime consisting of Adenauer's Christian Democrats, Heuss's Free Democratic Party and the small German Party...
...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...