Word: von
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joachim von Ribbentrop wept repeatedly while he saw his wife for the last time. Ernst Kaltenbrunner desperately tried to kiss his mistress (and mother of his two children) through the grille of the visitors' room. Wilhelm Frick moaned: "All is finished, and there isn't much use waiting around." Goring read Bengt W. K. Berg's To Africa with the Migratory Birds. Funk (who had escaped with life) read Paul de Kruif's Men against Death...
...stiff-necked, German-born G-2 officer Brigadier General Charles A. Willoughby (who changed his name from Von Tscheppe-Weidenbach) sat in his Dai Ichi Building office late one night, scanning proofsheets of the English-language Nippon Times, his eye lit on an editorial reprinted from the Tokyo daily Jiji Shimpo. "Japanese teachers," he read, "have the habit of blind worship for . . . the man in power. . . . They used to endeavor to instill in the minds of their pupils that the Emperor was God. Now they claim that General MacArthur is the Savior.. .. Until the Japanese are cleansed of this...
After the Japanese invaded Java in 1942 von Koenigswald was a prisoner for three years. His precious bones were safe. The three Gigantopithecus teeth were hidden in a mile bottle with a Swedish friend.--Life...
Constantin von Neurath, oldest of the defendants (73), onetime protector of Czechoslovakia; 15 years...
...days before the sentences most of the 21 defendants in the greatest criminal trial in world history had said their farewells to their wives: Emmy Göring, Frau von Ribbentrop, Frau Schacht, et al. Now, for those who had escaped death there was ahead a fast trip to prison. For the rest, the eleven who had been sentenced to death, there was the gallows, reportedly within two weeks "in the Nürnberg area...