Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cognizant that the penalty for treason is death. Joyce had been poorly paid by the Nazis for his treasonable broadcasts, was now penniless. Under the Poor Prisoners' Defence Act, he was certified as entitled to free defense counsel. Then he was whisked to Brixton Prison in a Black Maria. On arrival, he had said: "So this is Brixton." "Yes," snapped his guard, "not Belsen...
Next morning, just before stepping into the Black Maria which took him to be executed, Koch said: "I am repentant and very serene. Goodbye, good luck, I won't waver...
...Books. By all odds the most popular war book ever written was the bitter and disillusioned All Quiet on the Western Front, by the German ex-soldier Erich Maria Remarque. It appeared in 1929, just halfway between two wars, and has sold more than 3,000,000 copies in 27 languages...
...famed U.S. Rainbow Division uncovered the cache last week in a cellar at Saint Johann, Austria. Some of the contents: five major Rembrandts, including the great Large Self Portrait; Pieter Broeughael's rousing Peasant Dance and his terrifying Tower of Babel; Velasquez' portrait of the Infanta Maria Margarita; Rubens' Saint Jerome. The Nazi custodian of this treasure, one Major Fabian, had a request to make: for "taking such good care of the collection" didn't 15 of his officers rate free tuition at an Austrian university...
...Erich Maria Remarque, 47, popular recorder of World War I's German disillusionment (All Quiet on the Western Front), faced the end of World War II in better spirits. Writing his fifth novel in Manhattan while awaiting his final U.S. citizenship papers, he said: "I am no more German. Even when I dream, it is about America, and when I swear ... it is American...