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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aristocratic relatives followed the sealed black coffin across Berlin's swank Kaiserwilhelm Cemetery. The grave had been dug next to the mausoleum of the family of a distant relative, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the ace of aces of Imperial Germany. Though there is generally no parson at such funerals, a Protestant pastor was permitted to officiate. Meanwhile all Berlin gaped at scarlet and black posters stuck up everywhere in which Adolf Hitler pointedly emphasized the obvious fact that he had refused to save from beheading Baroness von Falkenhayn and the other beauteous spy who was beheaded with her, aristocratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stoogettes & Neuter | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

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