Word: reichstager
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...member of the 1933 Reichstag he voted to grant sweeping powers to Hitler, but later got his Jewish wife out to England (in 1939), and himself managed to outfox Gestapo questioners. Named Minister President of Baden-Württemberg by the U.S. in 1945, Maier gave occupation authorities more trouble than any other top German official. When the U.S. military governor called him on the carpet for letting off convicted Nazis (he pardoned 2.564 in seven years), he growled that Swabians had been democrats long before Americans, referring to a local magna charta wrung from a Württemberg noble...
...Negroes had organized in protest against a fare rise. No one, however, could ignore the tension which emanated from the city drill hall, where 156 South Africans last week faced a court on charges of high treason-a trial which the London Economist likened to Hitler's notorious Reichstag fire trial...
...country man but for one's neighbor. 'Honor thy father and thy mother,' but not the head of the nation. To the latter, render what is Caesar's . . . but not the soul . . ." Under the Whips. Some, like Julius Leber, a Social-Democratic member of the Reichstag, spoke in tones of courageous epigram in which Americans can hear an echo of Nathan Hale: "I have only one head, and what better cause to risk it for than this?" Others, like Fetter Moen, an Oslo insurance man who, at 43, found him self under the steel whips...
...Ludwig Lemmer came the plans for a new Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church, going up on the ruined foundations of the old Kaiser Wilhelm Church. Main feature: a tall, concrete spire (see cut), which Berliners are calling "The Spiked Helmet of God." ¶ On the nearby site of the former Reichstag, Berliners will also have a new Congress Hall, mainly financed by U.S. government funds. Designed by Cambridge (Mass.) Architect Hugh Stubbins, it will have seven conference halls, theater and 1,200-capacity auditorium. Outstanding feature: a flaring sunbonnet roof moored by long steel cables...
...said. "When you base a proposition on a deal ... an illegal and immoral deal . . . you are destroying that very moral prestige of the [United Nations]." Tsiang paused. "This is a difficult moment for me," he said, then in German repeated Martin Luther's defiant apology to the Reichstag in Worms in 1521: "I cannot do otherwise...