Word: hindenburg
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Vigorous Ethel Alpenfels, 30, is the Denver-born daughter of a German baron, a schoolmate of the late great Marshal von" Hindenburg. She took her A.B. at the University of Washington, is now studying for a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has been a volunteer social worker in Judge Ben Lindsey's once-famed Denver juvenile court, a schoolteacher and Y.W.C.A. camp worker. At the University of Washington she took anthropology as a snap course to make up lost credits, found herself a career...
Adolf Hitler spoke for 20 minutes over the German radio last week. Just eleven years ago, tired old Paul von Hindenburg, admitting Hitler and his henchmen to power, had said to them: "All right, gentlemen, let us proceed under God." Now, on the anniversary, Hitler was not a man to be laughed at, nor a foe to be scorned. All that he had to say about "the Red Menace" was familiar poison. But, gripped in the autointoxication of despair, he still knew how to seize his German listeners' hearts...
...Schwerin a German railwayman named Ulrich Middelborg was executed for taking food from a freight car. At Hamburg an air-raid warden went to the gallows for taking a few yards of blackout cloth from a bombed house. At Hindenburg, in Upper Silesia, Bank Manager Georg Miethe was put to death for conversation which "failed to set an example of loyalty for his employes...
...chemist and a devout Roman Catholic, Max Jordan got his Ph.D. in religious philosophy at Jena, then got sidetracked into journalism and radio. He scored many radio scoops during ten years as NBC's European chief. He was the first broadcaster from Nazi-occupied Paris, from the Zeppelin Hindenburg over the Atlantic and the first to send the Munich Pact text...
Social Democracy died; Otto Wels fled to Prague. Naziism rolled on. In June 1934, Hitler purged his Party ranks of dissidents, linked arms with big business and the military to give his government greater power. Hindenburg died; the Dictator became President. Wehrfreiheit was proclaimed-freedom to arm. A year after the new Wehrmacht was born, on March 7, 1936, a thin column of field-grey troops followed a blaring band across the Rhine to reoccupy the territories under French guard since Versailles. The officers carried in their pockets sealed orders to retreat if France resisted. France did not resist...