Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recruit some of the faculty for the German School of Advanced Studies from scholars exiled by the Nazis. Courses will be taught in German and the school will be paid for mainly by 3,500,000 marks ($350,000) of German local-government funds. Probable site: the old Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute in the U.S. sector of Berlin...
...well over seventy and in semi-retirement, gave a recital of the twenty-four precludes and twenty-four etudes of Chopin. During the Rencontres Internationales at Geneva in September, at which Europe's leading intellectuals met to try to bring some unity to the post-war's ideological tangle, Wilhelm Bachaus appeared to give a recital of Beethoven sonatas and another of piano quintets with the redoubtable French Lowenguth quartet...
...Hermann Wilhelm Goring, the man who was said to have ordered the Guernica job as practice and demonstration for his Luftwaffe, was ignominiously dead last week, his ashes scattered to the four winds. But the man for whom Goring did the job-Francisco Franco-was very much alive. Moreover, Guernica had been completely rebuilt. In gratitude, the citizens of Guernica last week honored Franco with the "freedom of the borough...
...Kaltenbrunner: "... I have loved my German people and my Fatherland with a warm heart. . . . Germany, good luck. . . ." Then Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, who had nothing to say. Then Hans Frank: "I am thankful for the kind treatment during my imprisonment and I ask God to accept me with mercy." Then Wilhelm Frick: "Long live eternal Germany!" Then Julius Streicher, who looked wild-eyed and yelled "Heil Hitler." When asked for his name, he roared: "You know it well." From the gallows he jeered: "Purim Festival 1946"-and: "The Bolsheviks will hang you one day." As the black hood was placed over...
Life at Sukhum. When the Reds punched into Berlin, they threw a cordon of troops around the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, whence the news of uranium fission had first startled the scientific world in 1939. They went down into the cellar, dismantled the big cyclotron, packed it carefully off to Stalinland. Among the men they carried off was Baron Manfred von Ardenne, 39, a brilliant physicist...