Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ripples on Flensburger Forde glittered in the bright sunlight as Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, last Führer of the Third Reich, marched stiffly up the gangplank of the Patria, an old German liner housing a SHAEF mission. His long blue coat whipped at his knees, and his aides followed him in single file...
...Scharnhorst, a Hanoverian, and impetuous, dashing August Wilhelm Anton von Gneisenau, coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army, put the new ideas to work. In Bismarck's time, non-Prussian Helmuth Karl von Moltke made the study of past wars a prime function of the Corps...
While the Western Allies were belatedly liquidating their Flensburg fiasco, the Russians last week established a Berlin municipal council of German non-Communists and a few Communists (see below). In Vienna, the Russians had long since installed a national government headed by non-Communist Dr. Karl Rentier-and so far had ignored U.S. and British disapproval of this government...
...timid delegates to shame. Unanimously they adopted resolutions urging U.S. participation in a permanent "international educational and cultural organization." Reassured, the U.S. delegation promptly took steps to restore the original provision to the charter. If it is shaped to the wishes of its House sponsor, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, the international organization will 1) help re-establish education in devastated countries, 2) advise on the re-education of the enemy, 3) promote exchange of students, teachers, materials, methods, 4) avoid propaganda and direct control of schools...
...Flensburg had been put on a "seize and freeze" basis. Another SHAEF account said that they were under arrest. In other words, Doenitz and his henchmen faced incarceration and, possibly, punishment as war criminals. Meanwhile, at least until the Allies could find other administrators, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remained, in the eyes of defeated Germans, and to the alarm of Russia, the acknowledged governor of Germany...