Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...together last week.* Into the hilly Westphalian town of Iserlohn, through the city gate topped by a huge iron cross memorializing the Franco-Prussian War, trooped 2,500 Germans. They eagerly searched each other's faces, occasionally stopping to shake hands amid exclamations like: "Aren't you Schmidt of the 15th?", "Wasn't I with you at El Alamein?" It was the first reunion of Germany's famed Afrika Korps. At ceremonies in the town cemetery they paid sober honor to their former leader, Field Marshal Rommel, and to their comrades dead in the African campaign...
Traveler: The place was sold in '36 to a man called Schmidt who turned it into a beer garden...
Traveler: The place was sold in '36 to a man called Schmidt who turned it into a beer garden...
Last week in a Communist court in Prague, five more Nazis, charged with "crimes against humanity," received a quick trial and death sentences. Recently brought from Russia, they were: Nazi staff Officer Friedrich Gottschalk, Gestapoman Walter Richter, and SS (Elite Guard) Generals Ernst Hitzegrad, Richard Schmidt and Max Rozstock. Three women survivors of Lidice identified Rozstock, former chief of Nazi security in Kladno, Bohemia, as the man who directed the destruction of Lidice. Unexplained: why the Russians waited so long...
...left (one in Budapest, two in Warsaw). Wire services and newspapers outside the Iron Curtain must rely on stringers (i.e., part-time correspondents) who are natives of the countries, and who cannot hold a job without a police permit, thus can send only what is officially approved. Concluded Schmidt: "One by one the Communists are plugging the last chinks in the Iron Curtain...