Word: sseldorfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says he quit the Nazi Party in 1941, when he married a part-Jewish woman. After the war, in which he served as an enlisted infantryman on the Russian front, Schröder joined the Christian Democrats, at Adenauer's urging campaigned in 1949 for the Düsseldorf seat in the Bundestag that he still holds. As Interior Minister, Schröder was famed for inept statements, most notably his breathless announcement that defecting Counterspy Otto John had been "kidnaped" by the East Germans in 1954. Cracked one nightclub comic: "Schröder has some more good ideas...
...stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf. The good people of Krefeld hardly knew what to make...
...situation in West Germany. There businessmen are frantically trying to find workers to fill 500,000 jobs. At the latest count, there were only 137,382 unemployed in the republic's entire work force of 24.6 million, an astounding .6% rate of unemployment. One Düsseldorf department store advertised for saleswomen, promised: "If you live out of town, we have pickup points. You meet interesting people, are offered free lunch and given a 15% discount on everything in the store...
Died. Walther Funk, 69, Hitler's Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nürnberg Tribunal in 1946, but released in 1957 because of ill health; of a heart attack; in Düsseldorf, Germany...