Word: herren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each student had had to appear before an admissions committee. The committee was tough on grinds and narrow specialists ("Germany has had enough of bookish but purposeless Herren Doktoren"). It also rejected one boy who hopefully emphasized that his grandmother had been an Aryan. But it did accept several Communists-"otherwise," explained a professor, "we could not truly call ourselves a free university...
...gaunt, one-armed man in his worn 50s, and he had to hold his notes close up to his eyes; age and ten years in German concentration camps had all but blinded him. When he began with a polite meine Damen und Herren, a buzz swept over the crowd of British journalists, uneasy at hearing German in a London press conference. As the speaker continued, there was more than his language to make his listeners uneasy. He was veteran Socialist Dr. Kurt Schumacher, who raised his voice on what was technically still enemy soil, and he had some blunt...
...Seventy-two cases of art stolen from France and from Russia-in the former Carthusian Monastery at Buxheim. ¶ Some 300 cases of miscellaneous loot-in another old stronghold of Ludwig II of Bavaria on the island of Herren...
...Louvre: "Martha Fodor* is there, fighting to keep back the tears, every few minutes phoning the news to Fodor. Emil Maass, my former assistant, an Austro-American, who has long posed as an anti-Nazi, struts in, stops before the table. 'Well, meine Damen und Herren,' he smirks 'it was about time.' And he turns over his coat lapel, unpins his hidden Swastika button, and repins it on the outside. . . . Two or three women shriek: 'Shame!' at him. Major Goldschmidt, Legitimist, Catholic, but half Jewish, who has been sitting quietly at the table, rises...
Steel-helmeted Alpine troops carrying bayoneted rifles stood guard while Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano escorted Herren Hitler and Ribbentrop from their train to Il Duce's salon car. A red carpet, flanked by specially provided potted palms pointed...