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Fast Facts: • Was born in Bad Honnef, Germany, near Bonn. Studied law the University of Bonn and went on to practice in the city...
DIED. Hans Speidel, 87, co-conspirator in the 1944 generals' plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and from 1957 to 1963 NATO commander of allied land forces in Central Europe; of pneumonia; at his home in Bad Honnef, outside Bonn, West Germany. One of Germany's military elite, Speidel became disgusted with Hitler's conduct of the war and joined the unsuccessful bomb plot to kill the Nazi dictator at Hitler's East Prussia headquarters. Remaining silent under interrogation, Speidel survived the subsequent Gestapo inquisition. When West Germany's army was finally rebuilt...
Gravely the Ministry of Transport last week authorized official investigation of plans tendered the German Government by one Hermann Honnef to build a tower for the production of electricity...
While the Government toyed with Windmiller Honnef's proposition, nearly six million Germans were drawing a dole of $13 per week. At Waltershausen, when efforts were made to apply a recent dole reduction of 10%, furious dole-drawers rioted, wounded seven policemen. Police fired on the mob, killed two, wounded twelve, restored order...
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