Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the years of his U.S. heyday, Fritz Kuhn's plodding passion for Adolf Hitler was alloyed by a peripatetic passion for women. Four days after his Dachau escape, a 32-year-old waitress popped up with an old refrain. "Fritz is a very affectionate man," blonde Hedwig Munz told newsmen, "and we will be married as soon as all this trouble is straightened out." And Mrs. Kuhn? She was still the same patient Hausfrau who had stood by Kuhn through all his adventures. Said she: "How can she expect to marry my husband when he still is married...
...officer in the Imperial German-Navy, young Niemöller had thrilled to Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, played on the ship's phonograph while torpedoes from his submarine tore the bottoms from Allied ships. When Hitler rose to power, Niemöller rejected Nazi racism, but accepted the bulk of Nazi authoritarian. doctrine, and did not rebel until Hitler encroached on his church. His defiance cost him eight years in Hitler's concentration camps. Yet, twice during his internment-which earned him a reputation as Protestantism's outstanding martyr to the Nazis-Niemöller unsuccessfully...
Died. Thomas Theodor Heine,*80, cofounder, cartoonist and guiding genius of Germany's late great humor magazine Simplicissimus; in Stockholm. Sharp-penned Heine was jailed for making fun of the Kaiser, exiled in 1933 for making fun of Hitler. In his old age he ruefully remarked that "ridicule does not kill, it popularizes...
...Free Enterprise Society maintain that his economic views can be separated from the general friendliness to fascism that is so obviously intertwined with them in his mind? How can its officers ignore the sinster similarity between Hart's views, both economic and political, and those which brought Hitler to power in Germany? How can they fail to realize that, by bringing him here despite their knowledge of his record, they were adding to his prestige and thus aiding him in his undercover warfare against the principles of democracy...
...free skating, Sonja's showmanship was incomparable. She held crowds, kings and skating judges spellbound. Watching Henie skate did queer things to people: ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany once beckoned her to his box and gave her a diamond stickpin he was wearing; Adolf Hitler presented her with a huge picture of himself in a silver frame, flatteringly inscribed; Benito Mussolini simply said: "I wish I could skate like her." Besides skill and showmanship, Sonja possessed a talent for covering up the few technical mistakes she made...