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...Gaulle and Tukhachevsky first met during World War I. Both were young officers. Both were war prisoners in Germany. Both were interned at Ingolstadt, the Alcatraz of German prison camps. Both the short, ebullient Russian and the tall, solemn Frenchman were advocates of the new ideas of military mechanization. In their conversations each influenced the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Friends | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...Paris in 1936. De Gaulle was then a lieutenant colonel, Tukhachevsky the youngest (43) marshal in the Red Army and Vice Commissar for Defense. He had come to Paris to complete the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty. At a gay reunion dinner he talked over old times at Ingolstadt with De Gaulle and other French Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Friends | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Eusebio Kino was born in the village of Segno, in the Tyrolese Alps, probably on Aug. 10, 1645. Educated in the Jesuit College at Trent, he became a member of the Order in 1665, studied at Ingolstadt, became a mathematician and cartographer, planned to become a missionary to China. Traveling by way of Genoa to Spain, Kino was ordered to Mexico, shipwrecked, studied the great comet of 1680, began a long correspondence with the devout Duchess of Aveiro y Arcos before he landed at Vera Cruz on Sept. 25, 1681. He died 30 years later in northwestern Mexico after having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Professor After Jesuit | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...young Brownshirts got completely out of hand, staged an impromptu raid of the Communist workmen's quarters of the city. Street barricades were thrown up, pistols cracked, brickbats hurtled through the air. At least 15 men were gravely wounded. One Col. Hoffmann, former commandant of the fortress of Ingolstadt, was expected to die. Brunswick police, hopelessly outnumbered, telephoned frantically for tanks and armored cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eliza Bruning | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Prince Alban Lowenstein Wertheim Freudenberg was formerly a Captain in the Hanover Uhlans. General von Reichlin-Meldegg was formerly military commander of Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Both are now Franciscan monks, having taken the vow in Munich. The distinguishing characteristic of the Franciscan order is: Imitation of the public life of Christ, especially His poverty and simplicity- "A poor and scanty use of earthly goods." Their dress is brown robe with white girdle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Monks Franciscan | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

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