Word: sselsheim
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...trial droned on. The U.S. military judges heard how the eleven defendants, all citizens of Rüsselsheim, had lynched the fliers in a spasm of revenge. The court's verdict: freedom for one defendant, long imprisonment for three, death for seven. Among them: Frau Witzler. She was an old woman; she must have been a big girl when Adolf Hitler, the Führer, was born...
...General Motors Corp. slashed $46.9 million off its overseas investments, which it had carried at a book value of $96.5 million in 1941. Biggest G.M. write-off was the $35 million G.M.-owned Adam Opel A.G. auto and truck manufacturing works at Rüsselsheim, Germany. No G.M. official has any authentic information about the damage done to Opel when the R.A.F. heavily bombed the plant twice last summer. But the obvious conclusion was that the damage reports by bomber pilots satisfied the economic warfare experts in London who had Opel marked for a knockout...