Word: paulus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little (pop. 3,000) north German medieval town of Schoenfliess, where Paulus Tillich grew up, "one lived from Advent to Christmas to Pentecost. At Easter we children walked through the town with bundles of birch rods. It was the custom to beat the adults to get Easter eggs from them. Oh, how well I remember the wonderful fragrance of the fresh leaves!" At eight, Paul had his first brush with his future when "I encountered the conception of the Infinite." By the time he was 16, he knew he wanted to be a philosopher, and to this chancy calling...
Died. Friedrich von Paulus, 66, onetime Wehrmacht field marshal who led the ill-fated German Sixth Army at the decisive World War II Battle of Stalingrad, sold out to the Russians after his capture; of a stroke; in Dresden, East Germany...
Over the official East German radio came news that Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, 63, top Nazi general captured by Russia at Stalingrad in the 1943 debacle of the German Sixth Army, was finally coming home. After ten years of coddled denazification in Moscow, during which he helped organize some 100,000 fellow captives into a Free German army, Von Paulus is now presumably a good enough Communist to command an East German army...
...reported that Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, the loser at Stalingrad, is now serving 25 years at hard labor in a Soviet prison camp...
Ulbricht took up Soviet citizenship, helped organize German P.W.s and captured officers (among them, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus) into the pro-Communist shock corps that was supposed to go home and paint Germany Red after V-day. The propaganda barrage laid down on the encircled Wehrmacht armies at Stalingrad was written by Ulbricht and delivered in his guttural German over front-line loudspeakers. In Moscow, where he rubbed elbows with Red princelings from all over Europe, e.g., Tito, Togliatti, Thorez, he shared quarters in the Lux Hotel with a plain, buxom German émigree named Lotte...