Word: silesia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telegram told meagerly that both Servitor Tschirpe and his wife (also old) had been murdered, at Leuthen, near Sagan in Silesia. Soon the curtly ordered equerry panted and scrambled down with a presidential telegram which took automatic priority over every other message on the wires between Bavaria and Silesia...
Died. Prince George Wilhelm zu Schoenaich-Carolath, 18, stepson of the onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II and second son of Princess Hermine of Reuss, onetime wife of Prince Johann George von Schoenaich-Carolath; at Grunberg, Silesia; after a motorcycle accident. He underwent an unsuccessful operation upon his skull...
...Council heard a preliminary report on educational conditions in Polish Upper Silesia where there is a large "German minority." Controversy spirals up from the complaints of Germans that their children are being forced to learn Polish, and the retort of Poles that the students really are Polish and that it would merely be pampering their misguided German parents to educate these children in German...
...descendants of Georg von Giesche have operated in Upper Silesia, gathering into their Bergwerke Georg von Giesche Gesellschaft Erben (Estate) zinc mines (the largest in Europe), bituminous coal fields (present production 3,500,000 tons yearly), lead mines, concentrating plants, smelting works, melting furnaces, rolling mills, agricultural lands, 20,000 employes. The ancestor in 1704 willed that no other than his lineal descendants might own stock in his Estate. But War and aftermath have impoverished these descendants. They had to appeal to the Anaconda Copper Co. and to William Averell Harriman (who has spent much time in Europe since...
Venerable dwellers in the village of Obersalzbrunn, Silesia, told proudly last week how they had romped as children with Gerhart Hauptmann, now perhaps Germany's foremost man of letters, then the mischievous son of the indigent village hotel keeper...