Word: leipzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chemist-President Conant, crack researcher in chlorophyll (the green coloring matter of plants), graciously invited his outstanding rival, Chemist Dr. Hans Fischer of the University of Munich. A resounding roll of Nobel Prize winners included three physicists: Arthur Holly Compton (Chicago), Niels Bohr (Copenhagen), Werner Heisenberg (Leipzig); three chemists: Friedrich Bergius (Heidelberg), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Cambridge), Theodor Svedberg (Upsala, Sweden...
...Leipzig's famed Trade Fair last week went Reich Air Minister Göring and trainloads of important Army officers, not to gape at sample booths but to pay homage to a small young woman with curly hair and a timid voice. Though women in business are anathema to orthodox Nazis, Fraulein Martha Burger is one they cannot do without. An engineer and steel technician, she has designed a line of bombproof steel houses, and bombproof and gasproof cellars for houses already up, that have withstood dozens of tests from Germany's air force. At Leipzig last week...
...Busy at Leipzig last week drafting the new German Penal Code called for by Adolf Hitler, Judiciary Commissar Hans Frank said it will "contain a new category of punishment, 'Civic Death,' reducing the status of the condemned to that of a permanent outcast." As an afterthought, Dr. Frank recalled that the ancient Huns had a somewhat similar procedure of driving an offender out of the tribe to starve or be eaten by wild beasts. "We are in fact reviving," he observed, "an old German custom...
Bent on dedicating German youths to some other God than the sire of Christ, zealots of the Ludendorffist German Faith movement celebrated Easter with vague but impassioned rites. At Hamburg, Leipzig and in the Rhineland, bands of German boys and girls stepped out briskly under what was called "the blue banner of the German Faith, with its golden sunwheel, the Viking flag of the revolution of the German soul...
While a high Nazi official in Berlin was telling the world last week that in Germany today Jews are "economically untouched" (see above), local Nazi satraps got on with their work. In Leipzig, where the famed Fair will be attended this week by no Jewish buyers except the most furtive, Governor Martin Mutschmann of Saxony emotionally declared: "In the dark period when the whole world beset us, the Führer showed the German people the road to the light. He gave this people confidence and created possibilities for work without having to make use of the raw-material resources...