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...Days After. Europe's most successful realist has risen in classically enterprising fashion from hamble origins. Born Feb. 4, 1897 in the town of Fürth near Nürnberg in Franconia, he was the son of a peasant boy who left his farm to open a dry goods store in town. Badly wounded by a shell at Ypres, Corporal Ludwig Erhard returned home too weak to work in the store. He stayed on at Nürnberg's Commercial College, found his vocation in economics, went on to take his doctor's degree at Frankfurt...
...German army shipped the dismantled altar to Berlin to be stored like the treasure it is in the vaults of the Reichsbank. When the conquering U.S. Army moved into Germany, it found the crated altar in an air-conditioned vault in Veit Stoss's native Nürnberg. General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower ordered it shipped back to Cracow...
...currently on leave from his TV syndicated column to polish up on his broadcast manners, will host. The Twentieth Century has made one of TV's most extensive film searches to document great events and personalities: Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur, the German V-2 rocket, the Nürnberg trials, the love story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Don Whitehead's version of the FBI story. Globetrotter Lowell Thomas brings seven color adventure films back from New Guinea, Nepal, the Arctic, South Seas and Yucatan: and Conquest will showcase "breakthroughs" in science. After six years...
...trial when a medical examination proved him senile (he died in 1950), but the temper of the times demanded a Krupp in the dock. Though both the British and Russians declined to try Alfried, he and eleven directors were put on trial before a U.S. court at Nürnberg, were convicted of plundering the industries of conquered countries and exploiting slave labor. Alfried was sentenced to twelve years in prison and forced to forfeit his property, the only property seizure of the war crime trials; his directors got sentences ranging from two to twelve years. The head...
...acres was owned by 1,000 wealthy nobles. In 1941 Horthy took his country, crying for its "lost provinces," into the war alongside Hitler. By 1944 Horthy wanted an armistice: the Germans seized him and occupied Buda. He was later released by the U.S. Seventh Army from Nürnberg prison, now lives in Portugal, and at 88 has recently written his autobiography. Once again, as the Germans withdrew in 1944, conquerors swept down from the East to overrun the Hungarian plain, to rape, to pillage and to lay waste the once-gay Danube city of Budapest. This time they...