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...group arrested by the British, which was clever enough to realize that neo-Nazis must avoid the obvious Nazi trappings, the Freikorps deliberately set out to be pennywhistle Hitlers. As such, they were a laughable lot-except to a world that once laughed over the doings in a Munich beer cellar...
Cross Purposes. In Richmond, Sergeant Luther Seldon Jr. arrived home on a 30-day furlough from Munich to surprise his wife, found that she was en route to Germany to surprise...
...former lawyer dropped a footnote on Fritz Kuhn, the Gauleiter of the German-American Bund, who was kicked out of the U.S. in 1945 after 17 years' residence: unmourned, unknown and broke, Kuhn died Nov. 14, 1951, of a heart attack, in a Munich hospital...
Ingalls himself has done anything but that. Brought up in the mountain country of Virginia, he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen and persuaded his father to let him study music in Germany. "In Munich," he says, "I learned how to ski and speak German and that I wasn't a musician." After a year in Germany Ingalls came back to enter Harvard with the class of '36. He majored in classics, and took his first Sanskrit course, "out of curiosity." In the spring of his first year, he was "dropped" for failing to show...
...night, the engineer who talked in Munich last week was at the throttle, driving a train of tank cars for Russia through a thick fog after 18 straight hours on the job. At last he dozed off. An alert switchman dropped a warning torpedo underneath his wheels in time to avoid a collision, but the young engineer was promptly arrested for sabotage. This is the rest of the story as he told...