Word: werners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany who consistently dared to oppose Adolf Hitler was Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Son of a Kaiserlich Junker General and a devout Protestant mother, he grew up in the aristocratic Army tradition and had only one thing in common .with the corporal who became Germany's Führer;: both loved the Fatherland...
...have been given him. Next tiff between the two occurred when good Protestant Fritsch hotly defended Pastor Martin Niembller, who was being hounded by the Nazis.* In 1938 it was Fritsch who carried straight to Hitler himself the class-conscious Army's protest against Minister of War Marshal Werner von Blomberg's marriageto his stenographer. In the purge that followed both Blomberg and Fritsch lost their jobs, but after the Army's mechanical breakdown during the invasion of Austria, Fritsch was reinstated to the extent that he was given honorary command of the 12th Artillery Regiment...
...Some clue to the possible fate of General Fritsch was contained in reports that Great Britain by offering to negotiate with "any honorable Government in Germany," had focused attention on the one element which could seize power from the Nazis-the powerful old Junker Reichswehr, whose leader had been Werner von Fritsch. The most, important question in the strange death of Fritsch seemed to be: was he shot from front or back...
Among the new additions to the faculty will be many prominent foreigners including Werner W. Jaeger, professor of the Classics, and his compatriot, former Chancellor of Germany, Dr. Heinrich Bruening, who has been appointed a permanent professor in the Government Department...
Jack Herbert James, Donald Carl Johnson, Willy Ludwig Kraus, Eric Larrabee, Walter Jay Lear, Perry Deyo LeFevre, Martin Lubin, Roger Thurston Lyford, Werner Karl Mass, Robert Lempereur McMurtrie, Harold Morton Mooney, James Wiliam Morley, Albert Stanley Murphy...