Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. General Joseph Edouard Dou-menc, 67, who organized the French army's transport system in World War I, headed the ill-fated French military mission to Moscow just before the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939, took charge of the demobilization of 5,000,000 troops when France fell; in a mountain-climbing accident; near Briangon, France...
Born the son of a South Carolina Methodist preacher, once a Pulitzer scholar in journalism, for 18 years U.P. correspondent in Vienna, Best had made some 300 broadcasts for the Nazis. He had demanded that Congress impeach "that paranoiacal paralytic in the White House," sue for peace, and join Hitler's war against Communism and "mankind's abomination and curse . . . namely, the Christ killers, the kikes, the damn hyphen Jews...
Dawn & Lightning. Denounced by Hitler as the most degenerate of degenerate artists, Kokoschka fled from Prague to London. Now, though he keeps his flat in London, he prefers to wander from city to city, "an immensely free citizen of the world," painting as the dawn breaks around him, or on-stormy nights when the lightning plays. Last week, two of his latest works were on display in a Manhattan gallery. They were portraits, one of a bemused art collector, the other of a wistful clown, standing against a gaudy carnival background, gazing over the head of an absurd little...
...Poky. Aged (75) Hermann Roechling, who ran the Saar industries through World Wars I & II, became the first industrialist in history to be convicted of waging aggressive war. In Baden-Baden, an international court found him guilty on three counts as boss of Hitler's steel industry from 1942 on, sentenced him to seven years in prison. (Acquitted by another court on the same charge but awaiting a verdict on two other war crime counts were Alfred Krupp, No. 1 Nazi gunmaker, and eleven Krupp directors...
...Manhattan, Adolf Hitler's custom-built, gangster-model Mercedes-Benz (135-m.p.h. speed, bulletproof glass, adjustable armored plate) was delivered to its buyer, a man named Christopher G. Janus. Having done more looking backward than ahead, Janus admitted: "Now that I've got it, I'm not sure . . . what to do with...