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Lieser protested to the state government of Baden-Württemberg. Nothing happened. When he pressed his case, officials, hoping to hush up the matter, tried to arrange a reconciliation between Lieser and Zind. But instead of apologizing, Zind snapped: "I would rather clean the streets than crawl...
Under the warm sun of a republic that suffers kings no more, Prince Henri of France, 24, the eldest son of the Count of Paris, pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and the Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg, 22, were married before 150 other crowned and uncrowned heads of Europe's dwindling but still ornamental nobility. As the elegant 50-car procession wound through the streets of Dreux in one of the most dazzling displays of royal panoply since World War II, thousands of monarchists shouted "Vive le Roi!" Among those present: King Paul and Queen Frederika...
...committed her daughter Margaret to the care of a frenetic novelist and proprietor of a finishing school named Blanche Willis Howard, who became The False Friend Who Poisoned Her Daughter's Mind Against Her Mother. She herself fell under the care of the sinister Württemberg court physician. Dr. Julius von Teuffel, who fed her a hypnotic drug called sulfonal. At this point the proliferating plot begins to evoke Bertha, The Sewing Machine Girl...
...east as the Rhine. He made himself so agreeable throughout NATO's top echelons, in fact, that the Germans had practically no choice but to name him to the new job-his first field command since he bossed a Grenadier battalion in his native Württemberg 21 years...
...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...