Word: gertrude
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Adolf Hitler was introduced to a shapely, blue-eyed, indubitably Aryan Hamfran named Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, mother of four. Five years later she was Reichsfrauenführerin (leader of German women), entrusted with the job of making German women fit and productive mates for Nazi men. Her credo: "We obey unconditionally." Her 1939 Mother's Day message said: "We bring the fruits of motherhood to the Führer and say to him: 'It is the best that we have, therefore it belongs...
...husky, seasoned Wagnerian troupers as could be found in any opera house the world over. Some of them (Elisabeth Rethberg, Lotte Lehmann, Friedrich Schorr, Emanuel List) were veterans of leading German and Austrian opera houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior, for 14 years the Met's leading Tristan, Siegmund, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser...