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Around the world, scientists wondered what had happened to Dr. Otto Hahn, 66-year-old head of the chemistry department of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the man who first smashed the uranium atom. At least one U.S. university (Chicago) wanted to offer the German scientist a position...
...protesting and demonstrating. In speech and pamphlet, leaders of the "Going Home" agitation struck out against "imperialism," "militarism," the big brass, War Secretary Patterson, Congress-even businessmen. Highpoint men threatened to "lie down" until sent home; 12,000 men booed an explanation of the slowdown offered by Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer...
Individual defendants were inexorably linked to definite crimes against humanity. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was not always engrossed in high strategy; he assisted in rounding up slave labor by order ing Polish homes burned. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher, was involved in an order that babies born to Russian women on slave-labor trains be thrown from the windows. Albert Speer, Director of War Production, urged more SS brutality to accelerate the working pace of the slaves...
...Switzerland, the third son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, his wife Princess Adelaide, and his vivacious daughter Princess Victoria Marina,have changed residence from one resort hotel to another, at the request of the management of the first hotel...
Whether Berlin's great conductor Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler was or was not a Nazi hardly seemed worth arguing. Goring gave him the highest Government job held by a musician, that of Nazi Staatsrat (State Councilor) of Prussia. When he fled Germany to Switzerland last February, the Zurich Municipal Council canceled two sold-out concerts he was sched uled to lead. Three days later, Furtwängler conducted in the Swiss industrial town of Winterthur, and the fire department had to turn hoses on 4,000 workers demon strating outside the hall. Since then, Furtwängler...