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Died. Amelie Thyssen, 87, widow of German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen and heiress, along with her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires, to his giant Ruhr Valley coal and steel complex, which was confiscated by the Nazis when the Thyssens fled the Third Reich in 1939 and now worth an estimated $1 billion; of complications following a fall; near Straubing, Germany...
...conception had been molded by Braun's grandfather, who helped found the company in 1886. Aiming at the overfed women of the Reich's middle class, he marketed corsets under such formidable names as "Colossus," "Hercules" and "Grenadier," the last with a whalebone skeleton guaranteed to be indestructible. When, in 1918. a flamboyant Parisian couturier named Paul Poiret launched an anti-corset crusade, Triumph faltered so badly that it had to take up the manufacture of toweling, a sideline that survives today...
...whole idea. Union leaders are still haunted by memories of 1933, when Adolf Hitler, upon the famous pretext of the Reichstag fire, used Article 48, the emergency provision of the Weimar Republic's constitution, to suspend constitutional guarantees and turn the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich...
...defended against the onrushing Allied armies, it was to be destroyed. The bridges of the Seine, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, even the Eiffel Tower, were to be blasted to oblivion. The conquerors were to find that, in its dying gasp, the Thousand-Year Reich had leveled a thousand years of Western history's most treasured monuments, leaving Paris, in Hitler's words, "nothing but a blackened field of ruins...
Twenty years ago, the Third Reich died amid the fiery rubble of conquered Berlin, having pulled into ruins much of the rest of the Continent as well. To day, Western Europe is prosperous and at peace. And yet, as the nations last week commemorated Hitler's Zusam-menbruch, the very way they went about it proved - for all the gleaming miracles of glass and stone - how wide spread are the new divisions that afflict Europe two decades later...