Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weapon in Washington back in 1934 by a Commerce Department official who had borrowed it from the owner. The owner got it back from the District of Columbia police, later sold it to a gun shop, where Bang-Jensen bought it in 1941 to use in case he found Nazi agents prowling around the legation of the Danish government in exile...
Operating since 1947 on a modest budget of less than $100,000 of public funds yearly, the institute's staff of 35 specialists, headed by scholarly, bespectacled Historian Helmut Krausnick, 54, has assembled and is sifting a mountain of documents of the Nazi years. Its findings of Nazi iniquity are made public in regular quarterly reports sent to 2,000 subscribers throughout the world, and in hundreds of "expert opinions" supplied on request to West German courts trying crimes of the Nazi period...
...Spark. Last week, as the institute welcomed foreign and domestic experts to its fourth annual convention of specialists on Nazi Germany, one of the prime topics on everyone's tongue was a question that the world believed answered long ago: Who set the Reichstag fire...
...Hitler arrested 4,000 Communist officials that night. The next night Chancellor Hitler persuaded aging President von Hindenburg to suspend all constitutional liberties. Communist Party gatherings and newspapers were banned, and the ban was later extended to the Socialist press. In the election a week later, Hitler's Nazi coalition won a Reichstag majority for the first time, though even then the Nazis' share of the vote was only 43.9%. Thereafter Hitler was able to eliminate all opposition, jail people at will, confiscate property and censor newspapers and books...
Died. Maximilian Adelbert Baer, 50, perpetually clowning prizefighter who won 66 out of 80 fights (51 knockouts) by haphazard training and a walloping right, delighted in knocking out Nazi Germany's prize sportsman Max Schmeling in 1933, won the world's heavyweight championship from Primo Camera in 1934 but lost it a year later to James J. Braddock, went to Hollywood where in movies, radio and TV he capitalized on his fighting career; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...