Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sselsheim, had lynched the fliers in a spasm of revenge. The court's verdict: freedom for one defendant, long imprisonment for three, death for seven. Among them: Frau Witzler. She was an old woman; she must have been a big girl when Adolf Hitler, the Führer, was born...
...Meegeren had been suspected of faking as far back as 1937 (a "Frans Hals," sold to a U.S. buyer, proved to have been fastened to its stretcher with modern thumbtacks). He really hit his stride when the Nazis came in; he sent the Führer a portfolio of reproductions of his work, obsequiously dedicated, and slyly passed off a phony on Goring. From the profits of his "discovered Vermeers" he moved into an Amsterdam mansion...
...Nazis, kicked him out. In 1938, the Carnegie International jury gave its $1.000 first prize to Hofer's The Wind, which pictured two defenseless figures huddling against a swirl ; it might well have been the ill wind faced by non-Nazi Germans. Herr Goebbels, the furious Fährer of Nazi art, who had previously let Hofer paint but not exhibit in Germany, thereupon forbade him to paint at all. But Hofer managed to keep at it- although he was twice bombed out of his Berlin home, and lost all his work. Last week's show included...
...queried him for six weeks and now pronounced him harmless. "It is clear to us," ran a dry but lightly carbonated statement by the British military government, "that he has led a perfectly blameless existence, being absolutely scared stiff of being associated in any way with the Führer's activities...
Some of the Nazis resented their enforced association with such low characters as bald, bewhiskered Jew-baiter Julius Streicher and the disconsolate ex-führer of the Labor Front, Robert Ley. But all were forced to eat their plain meals together...