Word: konrad
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bond which is growing between Protestants and Catholics throughout the Reich, where heretofore the two creeds have been divided as in few other lands by bloody memories of the Thirty Years' War. When 30 Confessional pastors were arrested in Prussia, slender, steel-nerved, aristocratic Count Konrad von Preysing, Roman Catholic Bishop of Berlin, directed that prayers for their safety be offered in every church of his diocese...
...animals who hear the hunter coming toward the trap. In the U. S. two committees were trying to get them out. One was the Emergency Rescue Committee, which claims to have brought to the U. S. since last July some 50 writers-in-exile, including Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Konrad Heiden, Leonhard Frank. The other was the Exiled Writers Committee, a sprout of the leftist-controlled League of American Writers. The two committees seemed to be getting in each other's hair...
Meanwhile the Emergency Rescue Committee made no comment beyond announcing a dinner of its own, also at the Hotel Commodore, in honor of distinguished Exiles Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Konrad Heiden. Distinguished speaker: Thomas Mann...
April 24. Konrad Henlein makes eight demands for Sudeten Germans...
...arriving at dawn, it was necessary to kill 120 Norwegian soldiers before the rest got the point. Oslo, and other points of entry, were betrayed from within by their sworn defenders before the people knew what was happening. At far-north Narvik, Major Quisling's good friend Colonel Konrad Bertram Holm Sundlo, commanding officer, actually welcomed the invaders. At Oslo, when 20,000 troopers had been landed, and Nazi warplanes had appalled the population by incessantly roaring low over the rooftops, and 200 big Junkers 52s were shuttling over on schedule every half-hour, each bringing 20 more fully...