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...honored Native Son Mozart with a summer music festival, and since 1900 it had attracted music lovers. Then, in 1934, Arturo Toscanini moved to Salzburg, and thousands came by train and plane to see and hear him. After Anschluss and the departure of Fascist-hater Toscanini, Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler took over and the festivals became Nazi celebrations...
Puzzle to Fission. Late in 1938 a distinguished German chemist named Otto Hahn, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm-Institute, was bombarding uranium with "slow" neutrons of low energy. As one of the end products, he identified barium. This puzzled him, but he published a diffident note on it in Naturwissenschalfen...
...happened in 1939 in the laboratory of a German scientist, Otto Hahn of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin...
Married. Prince Georg Wilhelm Christof of Prussia, 33, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria; and Lady Brigid Katherine Rachel Guinness, 25, youngest daughter of the Earl of Iveagh, Dublin brewer; in Hadham, Hertfordshire, England...
...newcomer, the Liberal Democrats. In a manifesto calling for a "liberal ideology and conception of the state," the Liberal Democrats took up a Weimar Republic tradition. The new party's leaders included two aged democrats: Eugen Schiffer, 85, a Weimar Minister of Finance and Justice; Dr. Wilhelm Külz, 70, former Bürgermeister of Dresden and Weimar Minister of the Interior...