Word: speers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within minutes after the hero had crossed the last divide, Denver's Mayor Robert W. Speer was out to claim him. Buffalo Bill dead and enshrined would obviously be a greater civic asset than Buffalo Bill alive with one foot on the Albany Hotel bar rail. Within an hour Bill's widow accepted the city's offer of a fine free burial on Lookout Mountain. (It took five months to bore a grave in the solid rock; Denver embalmers called on all their cunning to keep Bill looking...
...German Nobel Prizewinners Otto Hahn (TIME, Jan. 21) and Werner Heisenberg said that Germany knew the secret of harnessing atomic energy in 1941. Said Heisenberg: "We were unable to apply it because of shortages of manpower and material. ... In June, 1942, we made a report on our progress to Speer [Albert Speer, Nazi munitions boss now on trial at Nürnberg]. At the same time American atom scientists made a similar report in the U.S. Then followed the great difference -America was able to start building the necessary factories. . . . Germany could not even begin work...
...Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was not always engrossed in high strategy; he assisted in rounding up slave labor by order ing Polish homes burned. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher, was involved in an order that babies born to Russian women on slave-labor trains be thrown from the windows. Albert Speer, Director of War Production, urged more SS brutality to accelerate the working pace of the slaves...
...Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst Kalten-brunner, originator of mass execution by gas, and Albert Speer. the brilliant, ruthless organizer of German war production. Of the 24 not more than half were Prussians...
Inside the school were Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, "the last Reichsführer," and his ill-assorted but determined ministers-Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, acting premier, foreign minister and minister of finance; Franz Seldte, labor minister; Herbert Backe, agriculture; Julius Dorpmüller, transportation; and Albert Speer, Hitler's master of production. All but Dorpmüller were hyperactive Nazis...