Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel William Claire Menninger, famed psychiatrist (not to be confused with his brother, Karl Augustus Menninger, still holding the fort at the brothers' Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans.), warned Army doctors never to lose patience with soldiers with imaginary ills-most of them need psychiatric care. An Army doctor who says "The bastard isn't going to get away with that" may be merely venting his own resentment at the deprivations he suffers from being in military service. Doctors, Colonel Menninger pointed out, make more financial sacrifice on joining up than any other group...
...Allied Military Government court in Belgium last week two German civilians stood face to face with death. Robert Michel Hogen, 47, and Karl Packbier, 37, had harbored three German soldiers and an officer on Herr Hogen's farm, near the German town of Horbach. They had fed them and given them civilian clothes. Theirs was a capital offense...
...German Officers, now a subcommittee of the National Committee. Erich Weinert was chosen chairman of Free Germany, and General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the LI Army Corps at Stalingrad, became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German Communist Party; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Bismarck, ex-Luftwaffe pilot, and a pro-Russian proselytizer among his fellow officers...
Against the overwhelming power of the Allied landing in Normandy, Rommel and the German Army were swamped. Historians must still decide whether Rommel was hog-tied by his superior. Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, whether Allied sea and air superiority covered any possible German move, or whether the Desert Fox, for once, was hesitant and bumbling...
Rumania's General Ion Antonescu & friends, and Germany's economic expert Karl Clodius, had already disappeared into Russian jails. Glad to be rid of the embarrassment, his country had now gleefully handed over the former Rumanian dictator, who would presumably be held for a great trial of war criminals...