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...Died. Josef Alexander Pasternack, 58, bushy-haired symphonic and radio maestro; of heart disease, during a radio rehearsal; in Chicago. In order to avoid confusion with Cinema Producer Joe Pasternak, he always used his middle initial...
...state of war, placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter of Essen, publisher of Field Marshal Hermann Goring's Essener National-Zeitung, a Jew-hater and energetic protagonist of the Nazi Herrenvolk (ruling caste) ideology...
...Emperor's best friend. She had been an actress, in the old Burgtheater hard by the Palace grounds. Franz Josef liked her histrionics very much. Reports of their first meeting differ (she was 29, he 49), but it was not long before Käthi's husband, Nikolaus Kiss von Ittebe, had been appointed to a permanent consular post in far-off Morocco, Käthi had been given the not-so-far-off cottage, and wags in the Court guard were referring to their Emperor behind his back as "Herr Schratt...
After Franz Josef's death in 1916, Käthi came on hard times. Because she knew so much of the inside story of the Habsburgs, she was plagued by publishers, syndicates, authors' agents, cinema representatives with fantastic offers. But with wonderful loyalty she refused them all, lived off occasional sales of the Gobelins, pictures, china, and jewels the Emperor had given her (once, after a hunt, he had sent her a boar dressed up in necklaces, earrings, diamond bracelets). She made only one important revelation: in 1931 she made it clear that the mysterious double death...
Died. Katharina (Käthi) Schratt, 84, mistress of the late Austrian Emperor Franz Josef; in Vienna...