Word: nuremberg
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...Minister of Armaments and War Production, was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Starting in 1934, Speer built Nazi Party headquarters in Munich and the chancellery in Berlin and orchestrated Hitler's spectacular mass rallies at the stadium in Nuremberg. For his use of slave labor as head of war production from 1942 to 1945, he was sentenced in 1946 to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials...
...objets d'art. Then in 1966 an art historian friend recognized the paintings in a book on artwork that had been lost or destroyed in Germany during World War II. Soon the finding was authenticated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art: the paintings were 1499 portraits of a Nuremberg couple, Hans and Felicitas Tucher, by the German master Albrecht Dürer. They had disappeared in 1945 from safe-keeping at Schwarzburg Castle near Weimar during the American occupation. By 1969 Eliçofon was embroiled in a fierce custody battle for the Dürers that...
...presses were already rolling at the Nuremberg plant of the West German women's weekly Die Aktuelle (circ. 550,000) when local court officials slapped the publication with an injunction at 4 a.m. last Friday. Facing a $200,000 fine or six months' imprisonment, the publishers nevertheless ordered the staff to proceed; by midmorning, an outsize print run of 925,000 copies was being distributed throughout West Germany. The offending article: a six-page cover story headlined "The Whole Truth About the Phone Calls Between Prince Charles and Lady Diana: No Scandal, but Love, Longing and a Touch...
...U.S.S.R. Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra in West Germany. Though Maxim Shostakovich seemed emotionally strained as he conducted a composition by his father, few if any in the audience the Bavarian city of Fürth suspected what was afoot. During a post-concert dinner party in a nearby Nuremberg hotel, the Shostakoviches eluded the Soviet functionaries guarding the exits and slipped away to the local police station. There Maxim announced their intention to stay in the West. Later he called his old friend Rostropovich in Washington who in turn informed the State Department of the musicians' desire...
...anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the antiabortion forces march on Washington, sending a red rose-the symbol of their cause-to each member of Congress. Nellie Gray, organizer of this March for Life, warns that legislators who vote for abortion "will be held accountable, just as the Nuremberg trials found individuals personally responsible for crimes committed against humanity." This year the march drew more than 60,000. As their own symbols, pro-choice advocates often display coat hangers-grim reminders of the illegal and unsafe abortions to which women would have to resort if the court's ruling were...