Word: mainz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German populace were spoken last week by thin-lipped Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer, Senior Surgeon of the U.S. Public Health Service, just returned from Germany. The German civilian army has paid and is paying for the military might of the Reich. Last week German Sculptor Jean Sauer of Mainz announced that he had invented an ersatz coffin made of resin, which the Nazi authorities "will permit to be used instead of wood coffins...
Last week Nazi police discovered that some of Germany's tenderhearted Hausfrauen were "spoiling out-of-bounds" their Polish prisoners, imported to do the farm work left by Hitler's fighting men. In Mainz a special court convicted Frau Maria Frey of allowing hers "repeatedly to hug and kiss her and replying to these caresses," sentenced her to 18 months' imprisonment. Frau Arna Strauch, convicted more succinctly of adultery, was sentenced to two years and four months. Both were deprived of citizenship for three years...