Word: oppenhof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the new phase of Naziism was fact, not theory. In captured Aachen, which has been under A.M.G. supervision since last October, three German paratroopers sneaked up to the house of non-Nazi Mayor Franz Oppenhof, rapped on his back door, begged for food. When the Mayor appeared, they shot him through the temple. Three days later another non-Nazi, Mayor Velten of Meschede, was assassinated...
...Franz Oppenhof, of Aachen, was a director of the local armament works, Veltrup, which manufactured parts for German guns and V-2 rockets. He knew everyone, he was respected, and the Nazis had allowed him to prosper without joining the Party. So the U.S. Military Government installed him as Aachen's occupation Bürgermeister. Fifty-seven of the first 300 city functionaries chosen by him had been Nazi Party members. U.S. officers, weeding out 27 of them, had to agree with Herr Oppenhof that it was almost impossible to run the town efficiently without experienced Nazis...
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