Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer-Foreign correspondents are prone to make too much of the fact that Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, that he has never established his right to German citizenship. As a matter of fact Adolf Hitler was born just 62 mi. due east of Munich in the Austrian frontier town of Braunau and always considered himself more Bavarian than Austrian. Fascist Hitler discourages reference to his early life, not because there was anything shameful about it, but merely because it was not sufficiently romantic for Der Führer, the Leader of the Nazis. His father was a customs inspector. Young...
Earlier in the week Fascist brownshirts invaded Berlin's Jewish quarter, shouting: "Down with Judea!" Having jostled a Jewish pedestrian, they were chased by a Jewish mob, read in the evening papers that Leader Hitler had exhorted his followers that very day in Munich thus...
Professor Sigerist is a Parisian by birth and received his preliminary education in Paris and Zurich. He studied Medicine and Philology at the universities of London, Munich and Zurich, receiving his medical degree at the latter institution. He was a professor at the University of Leipzig until 1925, and Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine...
Until 1928 Dr. Salomon, a bland, heavy-set German with an ingratiating smile, was not even an amateur photographer. Born in Berlin 63 years ago, he took degrees in law in both Berlin and Munich. He started life as a lawyer, became a banker, then found himself press agent for a German publishing house. While working at this job he heard of a new German camera small enough to carry easily in the hand, sensitive enough to take pictures without special illumination...
...years a dispute raged between the University of Munich's Dr. Heinrich Wieland and Dr. Otto H. Warburg of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin, over the question whether cellular respiration requires iron. Dr. Warburg has maintained that it does; Dr. Wieland claimed it does not. Three years ago Dr. Wieland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry-not for cellular research, but for study of cholic acid contained in the bile. Last week Dr. Warburg won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The award was made for his studies of cell respiration which proved that...