Word: nikolaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 85% of the zone's eligible citizens queued up at the polls. But the heavy turnout was not all due to sudden democratic zest. Said Bürger Nikolaus Menge of Bad Sooden: "I'm voting today because it will please you Americans. . . ." Said Bürger Hans Berger: "The polling booths are the warmest places in town...
...perhaps you will remember the story about General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, onetime commander of all German land, sea and air forces in Norway. Annoyed that his American captors did not recognize him immediately, he exclaimed indignantly: "But your famous TIME magazine had my picture on the cover...
...General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, the former commander of all the German land, sea and air forces in Norway," he an nounced. "Your famous TIME magazine had my picture on the front page, and they described me as the master of land, sea & air." In the course of questioning by General Collins, Falkenhorst later explained that he had received a copy of TIME, containing his picture, from a friend in Sweden. "That is a very excellent magazine," he declared, "and it was a very satisfactory article about me - very satisfactory." Falkenhorst, who said there was never any doubt in his mind...
...General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst: "Insane war . . . mad leadership...
According to a British Broadcasting Corp. announcer whose ears were bent rather far forward one day last week, General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Nazi warlord in Norway, sat down to the table in Oslo, reached as usual for his newspaper, found in its place two copies of the London Times, just two days...