Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant also announced the appointment of Stuart P. Atkins, associate professor of German, as acting chairman of the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures for the spring term. He will replace Taylor Stark, professor of German, who will go on sabbatical leave...
Died. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 45, who pursued a sordid international course as Communist revolutionary, San Quentin jailbird, roving OGPU agent and fugitive, then told all in 1941's bestselling Out of the Night; of pneumonia; in Chestertown, Md. After barely escaping deportation, German-born Author Krebs served as a combat soldier in the Pacific, became a U.S. citizen and president of a Chestertown P.T.A...
Margarete Buber, once a Communist who could point to an eleven-year record of toeing the party line, began to get into trouble with the U.S.S.R. in 1931. That year, her common-law husband, top-ranking German Communist Leader Heinz Neumann, dared to say no when Stalin asked: "Don't you think that if [Naziism] came to power in Germany it would be so much taken up in the West that the Soviet Union could develop in peace and build up Socialism?" Booted out of his high party post, Neumann was assigned to a round of minor party chores...
While Comrade Buber worked at shoveling dung or weeding fields, her fellow inmates died around her in droves-by suicide, or of malnutrition or disease. Then one day in 1940, Stalin played his final joker on his German Communist prisoners: as a symbol of solidarity under the Nazi-Soviet pact, he turned scores of them over to Hitler, who lost no time in throwing them into concentration camps. Hardly a handful was still alive by April...
...Author Buber gives no details of Heinz Neumann's role in the German Communist party (and in the Comintern) before his fall from grace. Other ex-Communists, writing books of their own, have told more. In Out of the Night (1941), the late Jan Valtin described him as "the ruthless Heinz Neumann," chief of the anti-Nazi division of the German Communist party, who once, in ordering a strong-arm demonstration, told Valtin: "Ich will Leichen sehen" (I want to see corpses...