Word: remagen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decline of both Bismarck and the Kaiser). When the Gestapo released him during the Götterdämmerung of the Allied advance, Adenauer trekked circuitously through the flooded Rhineland to his home at Rhöndorf, then sat out a vicious artillery duel between U.S. troops at the Remagen bridgehead and Wehrmacht gunners who were dug in directly behind his house. Walking in his garden one Sunday, Adenauer came under fire. "About 300 yards away, I saw a shell hurtling towards me," he writes. "I could gauge distances fairly well, because I knew the area intimately." Der Alte...
...flashed the fugitive's picture to taxi drivers at the airport until one cabby remembered taking the German to the border town of Eupen. In Eupen, Münch found another driver who had taken a "German businessman" across the border on a rush trip to Remagen-the town where Zech-Nenntwich owns a villa. Münch and Heggemann boldly rang the villa's doorbell and demanded to see Zech-Nenntwich. In a four-day talk marathon, the pair finally persuaded him to surrender to the police, then sped to Hamburg to turn out a 14-page...
...exasperated grocer claims it took him a year to collect a $50 debt from the Congolese embassy, and a Bonn moving company has been trying for three years to collect the balance of a $1,100 bill from the Saudi Arabians. When a landlord in nearby Remagen could not coax the rent from his South Korean tenants, he went to the Foreign Office and asked that the debt be covered by development aid money earmarked for Korea. The request was refused, but Foreign Office officials began worrying that deadbeat diplomacy might arouse enough adverse public opinion to damage their...
...wallpaper salesman in Buffalo, Spahn was just ripening in the minors when he went into the Army in 1942. A combat engineer, Spahn won a battlefield commission and was wounded by shrapnel in the action to repair the Remagen bridge for the first troops to cross the Rhine. Spahn shrugs off both the wound ("It was only a scratch in the foot'') and the promotion ("I got it only because all our officers were killed...