Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hold-up murder of 52-year-old Susan Flora Reich in Manhattan, self-dramatizing Madeline Webb went to prison for life, self-dramatizing Eli Shonbrun, impassive John Cullen went to Sing Sing to await death in the chair...
...while the conquerors walked away with their work. Last week news came from Germany that a group of top-flight Left-Bank painters and sculptors (some of them formerly listed by Hitler's Kulturkammer as "degenerate artists") were touring and lecturing in Germany as guests of the Third Reich. The guests: Painters Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cornelius van Dongen, Othon Friesz, Sculptors Paul Maximiliaen Landowski, Charles Despiau. Notably not there was the name of pre-war Paris' greatest painter, bulky Spanish-born Pablo Picasso, who presumably had had the guts to decline...
...Later? In London, Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes announced that "all exponents of the Nazi Party and Reich Government on Czech territory" would be held criminally responsible for the killing of Czechs and would be executed on the day of victory. Obviously, however, threats of post-war action could do no good, since the Nazis long since have gambled everything they have on winning...
...Marshal Arthur Travers Harris chief of the R.A.F. bomber command and father of the 1,000-plane raids on the Reich-Knight Commander of the Bath...
...Shortly after he came to power, Hitler met healthy, olive-skinned Eva Braun, 20 years his junior, assistant to his official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. For seven years she was Hitler's mistress, with her own apartments in Berlin's Reich Chancellery and at Berchtesgaden. Under her influence he shifted from nightshirts to pajamas. He gave her an engagement ring and bought a custom-built Mercedes intended as a wedding present. But war, not Eva Braun, claimed Adolf Hitler...