Word: magdeburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Munich airport Baroness von Maltzan, former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
Adjutant telegraphers and telephonists interrupted momentarily the Kaiser's audience with his generals. The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden was telephoning from Berlin. Local revolutions, prepared throughout Germany by the Independent Socialists had broken out at Kiel (Nov. 6), Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Magdeburg, Dresden. ... At Berlin a tide of civilian workers and mutinous soldiers was milling through the streets. Prince Max demanded that the Kaiser abdicate. The populace, he declared, had been convinced by Allied propaganda that the Allies would never make peace with a Hohenzollern, would trample across Germany to Berlin...
Just before 1914 he had succeeded in creating a secret military organization The World War brought to him the opportunity of campaigning with these fanatically devoted troops against both Russian and Teutonic encroachment upon Poland. Eventually captured and imprisoned by the Germans at Magdeburg, he returned to Poland in 1918 to find himself her supreme military hero, though much of the work of liberating Poland which he inspired was performed by others...
This time, however, the President decided that sue he must. The case was to be held in Magdeburg, a commercial town in Prussian Saxony about 80 miles southwest of Berlin. A terrific campaign against, the President was waged by the Monarchist press, while the Republican press was equally active in the opposite direction...
...diplomat, he saw service at Rio de Janeiro, Christiania, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Peking. At the latter place, he met Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, married her. They have one daughter. The Baroness is reputed to be one of Berlin's most popular hostesses and to be well known by the U. S. colony...