Word: willi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the Germans: Paul Wandel, editor of Berlin's Communist newspaper Deutsche Volkszeitung; Willi Schroeder, onetime Communist deputy in the Mecklenburg provincial government, Edwin Hörnle, oldtime Communist leader and Reichstag deputy; Eugene Schiffer, 85, Liberal Democrat and once Reich Finance and Justice Minister; Dr. Wilhelm Fitzner, Social Democrat, a lawyer who had served a three-year term in a concentration camp; Dr. Ferdinand Friedensburg, 58, Christian Democrat, former Berlin police official and ex-head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; Helmut Lehmann, Social Democrat, freed from a concentration camp by the Russians last April...
...President of Mecklenburg is Willi Hoecker (Social Democrat); of his three vice-presidents two are Communists. The President of Saxony is Rudolf Friedrichs (Social Democrat); his five vice-presidents include two Social Democrats, two Christian Democrats, one Communist. The President of Brandenburg is Dr. Arthur Steinhoff (Social Democrat); his four vice-presidents include one Christian Democrat, one Social Democrat, and two prominent members of the Free Germany Committee, Major Bernhard Bechler and Edwin Hornle, onetime Communist Reichstag deputy...
...rnberg, Nazi Boss Karl Holz shot Mayor Willi Liebel and then himself...
...outsiders the raid drew attention to the New Leader's main claim to distinction-as bellwether for exile and native anti-Communists in the U. S. Among them: Willi Schlamm, leader at 16 of the Austrian Communist Party, one of the first to break with Stalin; Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia); the late General Walter Krivitsky. For Editor Riesel these characteristic contributors afforded a probable reason for the visit: Communist footpads were looking for the address of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Jan Valtin, ex-Communist author of Out of the Night, currently best-selling Baedeker of the Stalinist...
Then, to prove that his was no one-groove arm, he broke the ten-year-old intercollegiate record for the discus throw with a flip of 167 ft. 4⅜ in., less than seven feet under the world's record set by Germany's Willi Schroeder five years...