Word: von
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moods of his fellow defendants were varied. Most were nervous, winced even at the mention of their names. Ex-Foreign Minister Ribbentrop looked broken and old, with a hurt, petulant look on his frozen face. Ex-Ambassador Franz von Papen spoke to no one, listened impassively (but he had Mass said for him before he came to court in the morning). Best show of austere indifference was given by former Chief of the Supreme High Command Wilhelm Keitel (who was in good health: Allied physicians had successfully doctored his flat feet...
Herr Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 75, head of Germany's notorious munitions dynasty, was too old and too sick to go on trial with the other indicted war criminals at Nürnberg. But Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson wanted a live Krupp in the dock. He had an idea: why not substitute 38-year-old Alfried Krupp for his ailing father? After all, all the Krupps were in the same boat. The Russians and French agreed; Jackson asked for a delay to write the new name into the old indictment. The International War Crimes Tribunal...
...Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop: "I would like to think this over before saying anything...
...Berchtesgaden one prewar afternoon, Austria's timid Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg sat under a tree, waiting to be browbeaten. "Nearby Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel peacefully sunned himself on the porch. Last week Keitel told what happened next. Hitler appeared in the doorway, screaming: "Keitel, come here!" Schuschnigg watched as Germany's tall, arrogant Chief of the Supreme High Command strode into the house...
Marlene Dietrich, still trouping for the troops, had her picture taken with her mother, Frau Josephine von Losch, at Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome; Dietrich's taste for tailored togs appeared to be hereditary...