Word: oberb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British had issued a housing eviction order to make room for a new Military Government Headquarters. Hamburgers dispatched a delegation of six women to see Hamburg's dignified Oberbürgermeister Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen, and plead with him to intervene with British authorities...
...Berlin the U.S. Army got tough with municipal officers. A month ago the Army had told city officials to get the people out rounding up wood to heat their homes this winter. Berlin's Oberbürgermeister dallied, spoke of combining wood-gathering with regular forest thinning. Last week U.S. soldiers rounded up laborers in Berlin, packed them off to Grunewald. There they were given saws and axes, told to get busy. They...
...appeal to the uprooted came from Berlin's Russian-appointed Oberbürger-meister Arthur Werner: "You have been living through only a small part of that which Russians, Poles, Czechs and other people . . . have had to suffer during the years under Hitler. But it would be of little use to anyone to accept our suffering as penance for the ill Germany has caused others. . . . The utmost efforts are being made . . . but you must help. . . . Help us to build a new Germany where freedom and democracy will reign...
Mark of the Russians. The Russian imprint was also everywhere. In their period of unilateral rule, the Russians had appointed the Bürgermeisters for all Berlin's boroughs and an Oberbürgermeister. They had opened, under their own rules, a few schools, movies, cafes. Their buxom women troops acted as sentries and traffic police. Their stolid Red Armymen drove confiscated cattle and horses along the Kurfurstendamm...
...solid mayoral chair sat Oberbürgermeister Alfred Freiberg, his sightless eyes fixed on the carved ceiling. In armchairs beside him, waxen-faced in death, sat his matronly wife and bespectacled daughter. In an adjoining room Stadtkämmerer (City Treasurer) Kurt Lisso, his wife and daughter also sat in poisoned death. The rigid bodies of four Volkstürmers sprawled in other offices. Two, it was plain, had sat across a table, sipping brandy until one had drunk enough to pick up a machine pistol, shoot his comrade and then himself...