Word: wilhelm
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Among those elected to city council posts was Wilhelm Schepmann, who headed the Storm Troopers in 1945, and who campaigned on the strength of pictures of him self in full SS regalia...
Good Old Days. Nazi gains were concentrated in the state of Lower Saxony, where unemployed and underfed refugees from Soviet Germany were attracted by the fierce Irredentism of men like Wilhelm Schepmann, onetime chief of staff of Hitler's Storm Troopers. For the first time since the war, the Nazis dared to campaign on the "good old days" of Hitler. "Germans, the best people on earth . . . are forced to live like animals," stormed Schepmann. "The Jew, as dictator of democracy, Bolshevism and the Vatican rules over you," read a swastika-stippled pamphlet...
...Lower Saxony, an old friend of Hitler's emerged from a wooden hut where he is living, unemployed, on a dole of $6.90 a week, to win a seat on both the town and county councils of Gifhorn. He was Brownshirt Wilhelm Schepmann, 58, last chief of staff of Hitler's Storm Troopers. Schepmann won easily, without even bothering to campaign. In other local elections in Lower Saxony the neo-Nazis campaigned on the slogan: "Stand fast. Remain German . . . We shall return." The Refugee Party, which had the Nazis' support, won 17% of the total vote...
...Monarch to Another. He and brother Wilhelm went instead to an ordinary public school in Potsdam. "Our very first report cards," writes His Royal Highness without the suggestion of a double take, "indicated that we were the best of the whole class...
...Advice. Just before war came, Lulu married Grand Duchess Kira, one of the last of the Romanovs. Through the war, they lived mostly on the family's East Prussian farm with their growing brood of princes and princesses (there are seven of them now). In 1940, when brother Wilhelm was killed in action in Flanders, Lulu became the Hohenzollern heir in his stead. In 1944 he barely escaped the Russian advance, and almost got nabbed by the Nazis too for knowing a thing or two (not much more) about the bomb plot on Hitler's life...