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...support there, but opinion polls give it just 2% of the vote. A party needs 5% to earn a place in the state legislature. "Schill's party is like a collection point for dissatisfied people," says Ralf Tils, a political scientist at the University of Lüneburg. "At the moment there's a potential for a far-right protest party. But Schill can't control it in all of Germany." In addition to Saxony-Anhalt, Schill's party is putting up a slate of candidates in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. But that election takes place on Sept. 22, the same...
...George, be a king!" his mother commanded him, and no one can say that George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, has not done his best. The first English-born monarch since Queen Anne died more than 60 years ago, George proudly proclaimed in his first speech from the throne that he "gloried in the name of Briton."* Yet paradoxically, his patriotism, combined with the dogmatic, unyielding temperament he has shown since childhood, has torn apart the British Empire he inherited 16 years...
Died. Erhard Milch, 79, protégé of Hermann GÖring who helped set up the Luftwaffe; in Lüneburg, West Germany. Milch organized flying schools and glider clubs during the period in which Germany was barred by treaty from having an air force. He also became managing director of Lufthansa during the '20s. GÖring valued his talent and loyalty so highly that he arranged to have Milch's Jewish paternity officially denied (his mother was non-Jewish). During World War II, Milch was made Luftwaffe chief of staff, a cabinet member...
Aging (73) Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, financial wizard of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, kept his perfect batting average when he was acquitted last week at Lüneburg's denazification court for the fourth (and probably last) time...
...Princess of Hanover, Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg at the time of her marriage...