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...happened in 1939 in the laboratory of a German scientist, Otto Hahn of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin...
Just before daylight, the submarine got under way, slid silently through the naval base's narrow entrance. The sub swished past a sentry, standing with his back to the sea, and blinked a surrender signal to the control tower. The German sub marine, U-530, Lieut. Otto Wermoutt, 25, skipper, had indeed achieved the element of surprise...
...themselves and agreed to a joint program (TIME, July 9). Last week 17 industrial and commercial trade unions were organized under a joint Communist and Social Democratic trade-union committee. Its leaders, both fresh from concentration camps, were Communist exReichstag deputy Roman Chwalek and Social Democratic trade-union leader Otto Brass, who for several years served as chief of his party's underground work in Nazi Germany...
...last saw Hitler alive on April 29 in the Führer's shelter at the Berlin Reichs-Chancellery. He was "quiet and normal." The next afternoon Elite Guard Leader Otto Guensche telephoned Kempka to get a quantity of gasoline and report to the Führer's shelter. Party Chancellor Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Elite Guardsman Heinz Linge were there. "I ... found Bormann carrying the body of Frau Hitler-I learned later about the wedding two days before. I took the body from Bormann. It was warm and limp. Blood trickled from her left breast. I carried...
...afternoon of June 11, the Bank for International Settlements held its 15th annual general meeting in the austere board room of its building in Basel, Switzerland. In other years, such famed international bankers as Germany's Hjalmar Schacht and Walter Funk, Britain's Montague Norman and Sir Otto Niemeyer, Italy's Dottore Raffaele Pilotti, Japan's Hisaakira Kano, and the U.S.'s Thomas McKittrick had met around the huge, oval table. But this year may be B.I.S.'s last: several nations would like to have it dissolved, and even whisper that there would...