Word: lenzkirch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, 67, Adolf Hitler's last Ambassador to the U.S.; after long illness; in Lenzkirch, Germany. Distantly related by marriage to Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, chunky, affable, Roman Catholic Dieckhoff was required, as his first public act in the U.S., to chide Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago for referring to Hitler as "that Austrian paper hanger." After 18 months in the U.S., Diplomat Dieckhoff was recalled by the Führer in 1938 and never came back...
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