Word: rhinelander
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...trials who recalled that one "Obersturmjührer Georg Heuser" had poured gasoline over a dozen Jewish prisoners and burned them alive at Minsk during the war. A series of leads sent investigators to Koblenz, where they found Heuser, now boss of the criminal police for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. He had risen with the aid of forged documents...
Iserloh's arguments have roused German Protestant historians and set off a stir of headlines in the German press. Sighed one confused Rhineland layman: "Next thing they'll be claiming that Jan Hus wasn't burned at the stake...
...smothered der Alte with kind words. "You never heard such flattery." said one witness at the first meeting. Over dinner in the Palais Schaumburg's chandeliered Grosse Kabinettssaal, Rusk softened Adenauer with long reminiscences of his graduate student days in Berlin 30 years ago, of tours in the Rhineland, of the Weimar era. As the wine and champagne flowed, Rusk rose to toast U.S.-West German friendship, then turned to the old Chancellor with the ultimate and justified compliment. Seldom in a lifetime, said Rusk, did one have the opportunity to meet such a "historic personality." Next morning...
...life. Latest and best is West Germany's sleek new Rheingold Express, which clicks along at 100 m.p.h. between Basel and Hook of Holland. Its six cars offer the latest in air-conditioned high living-roomy six-seat compartments, contoured reclining chairs, a glass-walled observation car for Rhineland castle watching, cocktail lounge and gourmet restaurant, plus telephone service and a trilingual secretary for eager businessmen...
Chiefly responsible for Demag's growth has been bald, bespectacled Hans Reuter, 67. whose father launched the firm with a 1910 merger of three small Rhineland machinery makers. Last week, after 22 years as general manager of Demag, Reuter stepped up to chairman, to devote his time to such pet projects as Demag's atomic research program. To replace himself as operating boss, Reuter named burly Engineer Heinrich Miller...