Word: nurnberg
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...father having sold the family shop, young Erhard decided to go back to school after the war; economics fascinated him. From Nurnberg's Academy for Economics and Sociology, he went on to do graduate work at Frankfurt University, where he became a protege of famed economist Franz Oppenheimer, a leading exponent of free enterprise. A dedicated mountaineer, Oppenheimer once took Erhard on a climb in the Alps. There, atop Mount Piz Corvatsch (11,339 ft.), the professor asked his student one final question about economics and forthwith an nounced that young Erhard had passed his Ph.D. examination. Chuckled Oppenheimer...
...Thus, when Central Office agents were interrogating a onetime SS leader, the name "Heuser" kept cropping up in connection with terror against Jews near the Russian city of Minsk. But "Heuser" meant nothing until the Central Office cross index turned up the grisly testimony of a witness at the Nurnberg trials who recalled that one "Obersturmjührer Georg Heuser" had poured gasoline over a dozen Jewish prisoners and burned them alive at Minsk during the war. A series of leads sent investigators to Koblenz, where they found Heuser, now boss of the criminal police for the state of Rhineland...
...operator in international dark corners-a specialty that traces back to his wartime service as legal counsel to "Wild Bill" Donovan (no kin), head of the cloakand-dagger Office of Strategic Services. After the war, Donovan served on the U.S. legal staff at the war-criminal trials in Nurnberg, later helped draft the legislation setting up the Central Intelligence Agency...
...F.L.N. agrees not to publish a white paper on French atrocities or to stage any "Nurnberg Trial" of Frenchmen, either in person or in absentia...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). From his aviation experiences in World War I to his suicide at Nurnberg in 1946, the program traces the career of No. 2 Nazi Hermann Goring. Repeat...