Word: sseldorf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neanderthal fossils, first found at Gibraltar in 1848, first scientifically described in 1856 from a find in the Neanderthal Gorge near Düsseldorf in Germany, have been discovered also in France, Belgium, Spain, Moravia, Croatia, Palestine, on the island of Jersey in the British Channel, on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. This oldtimer persisted for a long but chronologically vague period, perhaps 150,000, perhaps 40,000 years ago. With his low-vaulted skull, huge eye-sockets and a short, broad nose, Neanderthal Man was no beauty, but he had just as big a brain...
...Overwork. A Düsseldorf public health officer named Gottwald, while puffing up a smokescreen of acclaim for general health conditions in the Reich, admitted that the curves of increased illness among workmen and increased working hours are closely parallel. Hardest hit are men in the building trades, who work 14-hour and 16-hour days...
...Near Düsseldorf, in the Rhineland, it was revealed that German laborers had been asked at a Yuletide Labor Front celebration to write on a slip of paper their answer to the question: "What wish would you like to have fulfilled during 1939?" Six slips read: "A new government!" The rebellious laborers were discovered, sent to a concentration camp...
Last week in the industrial town of Düsseldorf, Nazi musical authorities opened a Reich Music Congress, attended by musical big& little-wigs from all over Germany. Outstanding event on the program was an exhibition of "degenerate music" patterned after the exhibition of "degenerate art" that drew throngs in Munich last summer (TIME, Aug. 2). Scheduled for the pillory were compositions by Atonalists Schönberg, Berg and Hindemith, jazz, theoretical and critical writings by Jews and modernist sympathizers...
Poet Heine, lover of paradox, led a life full of contradiction. Born in Düsseldorf, 1797 he grew up in a period when libertarianism alternated with the fiercest repression. There was revolution in France, in Germany there were pogroms. Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love...