Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilhelm Keitel was not an easy man last week. Uneasy friend of Adolf Hitler, uneasy advocate of the great Russian adventure, the Chief of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces had plenty of worries...
That the General Staff wanted war with Russia was indicated by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's list of military grievances, which included many alleged frontier violations. With the power now held by the Army in Germany, the suddenness with which war was declared showed that Germany could be satisfied with nothing less than destruction of Russia as a power...
Invading Russia beat Napoleon. Perhaps it beat Kaiser Wilhelm. But Adolf Hitler thinks he can do it differently. He is deep in plans for the Ukraine. Some time ago he discovered Puppet Skoropadsky living on memories, polishing the Order of the Black Eagle which the Kaiser had given him, in a little house on the Wannsee, near Berlin. Skoropadsky thought his violent days were over; he no longer played the Cossack blindman's buff in which the blindfolded man tries to shoot his companions...
This tells what goes in and what comes out. The mystery is how the transmutation is achieved. The classic explanation, commonly accepted until recently, was proposed in 1870 by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer, and amplified by Nobel Prizeman Richard Willstütter of Munich: Under the influence of chlorophyll, carbon dioxide and water combine to form formaldehyde (CH 2 O) and free oxygen. Then, under the influence of light, six formaldehyde molecules somehow assemble into one glucose molecule...
...Died. Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 82, retired emperor; at Doom...