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...roadblocks for them. During the trip Von Braun's driver fell asleep at the wheel, the car crashed, Von Braun's left arm was broken and his face gashed (he still has a scar above his lip). Von Braun and Dornberger stayed three weeks in a Bavarian mountain lodge, finally sent Von Braun's younger brother, Magnus, bicycling downhill to invite the Americans to come and capture Peenemünde's top rocketmen. (Says Magnus: "I was the youngest, I spoke the best English, and I was the most expendable.") The U.S. Army was delighted...
...Means "little fellow" in Bavarian dialect...
...congratulations at the swearing-in ceremonies with "Yes, but this does not end my troubles," Adenauer hurried back to his study to write Schäffer that his proposal was "unsatisfactory" and that it was no longer possible to offer him the vice-chancellorship. Schäffer's Bavarian party followers rushed to Adenauer to suggest that Schäffer could be mollified if he was offered the Justice Ministry. Within minutes, Adenauer scratched off his first choice as Justice Minister, put down Schäffer's name instead. "Oh, how they make me suffer," he sighed...
...major demanded: "Are you Erhard? Please come with me." Erhard nervously embraced his wife and climbed in. At the U.S. military government office he learned that the U.S. authorities, impressed by the lack of Nazi ties in his record, had picked him for Bavarian economics minister. But Erhard, a Franconian, a Protestant and a reputed Freemason, never hit it off with his clannish Catholic Bavarian colleagues. No great shakes as administrator and organizer of hand-to-mouth subsistence measures, he was already wrapped up in his plans for sweeping visionary changes. He lost his post in the next ministerial shuffle...
...four-seat version of Bavarian Motor Works' two-seater Isetta. The Plexiglas front still opens up to admit the driver and front passenger. The two back passengers enter by a new narrow door in the right rear...