Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard Strauss, of Nazi Germany, whose only rival to the title of greatest living composer is Jean Sibelius, of Nazi-dominated Finland, has dared to defy the Führer. The story came out last week in the Schweizer Illustrierte Zeitung of Zurich, Switzerland...
...Gieseking never has been active in politics or political events. Of my knowledge I can say that although a citizen of Germany, born in France, he has been singularly free of any Nazi taint. In fact, he has been living in Switzerland, having gone there shortly after the war started. He is completely without guile or prejudice. He is devoted to his family and his music and such things as a valuable collection of butterflies. It is unfair for any American publication to create any different impression and I am sure that you would not want a reputable publication like...
...Otto von Bismarck, Counselor of the German Embassy and a close friend, promised to put a plane at Ciano's disposal. Ciano was spirited into the plane, but it flew to Germany, not to Spain as he intended. Later Edda and the children escaped in a car to Switzerland, though police had blanket orders to take her dead or alive, orders that could not have been issued without the knowledge of her adoring father...
Vienna-born (1902) Victor White is the son of an Austrian mother and a British engineer. When his father died, little Victor's mother remarried, moved to the U.S. leaving Victor behind. He was brought up by relatives in Vienna and Switzerland, later came...
...Through Switzerland came reports that Hitler still ranked first in German affections. The oft-repeated statement that the Fuhrer would know precisely when to order a crushing counteroffensive still had power to persuade. The invaders in the west, the Russian armies in the east still had to break into the Germans' last fortress, their will to survive...