Word: wilhelms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lower Saxony, the party 1) demands that foreign troops be kicked out, 2) repudiates "the disgusting self-accusation that Germany alone was guilty of two world wars," 3) promises "to create a new epoch in history" without repeating Hitler's "mistakes." Led by paunchy ex-Brown Shirt Wilhelm Meinberg, 61, who says he is "proud" of having been a Nazi, the German Reich Party is a hard-core political nucleus keeping alive old slogans. Others work at it too, including some 40 Nazi-run or Nazi-tainted publishing houses, some 25 youth social groups...
...visitors a year (as against 200,000 each for Munich and Cologne). Yet Kassel's Gemaeldegalerie can boast of one of the world's most brilliant collections of early German and Flemish paintings, topped by no fewer than 19 Rembrandts. Kassel can thank the art-loving Landgrave Wilhelm VIII, who ruled Hesse from 1751 to 1760. As a youth, Wilhelm did military service in the Low Countries, fell in love with Flemish art, and got in the habit of collecting it. Wilhelm's finest trophy was Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, which Rembrandt painted...