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...life claims of another pretender to the same identity were still in dispute last week. When he first arrived in Paris on May 26, 1833, he was a balding watchmaker with a thick mustache and a fringe of chin whiskers. His passport identified him as Karl Wilhelm Naundorff of Weimar, but the passport, its bearer promptly explained in almost incomprehensible French, was merely a blind; Karl Naundorff was in reality Louis, son of the guillotined Louis XVI, and the rightful King of France...
...boats. After that, the XX Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...
...efficient, but it looked upon itself as the masters of the people, not as their servants. Wrote one angry German critic in 1909: "The sergeant-types, who properly belong on the drill field, have gradually penetrated to the highest ranks of public administration." The authoritarian civil service survived the Weimar Republic, was made to order for Hitler...
Koehler, an authority on medieval works, is the present Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer on Fine Arts. He came to Harvard from Germany in 1934, where he was director of the Weimar State Museum and a professor at the University of Jona...
...Bonn, the Social Democrat Bundestag members read a resolution calling the Neumünster verdict "a new, heavy blow and disgrace to the German people." In Kiel, the trade unions stopped work for 90 minutes in protest. The Christian Democrat press service warned: "The Weimar Republic collapsed because of [similar] tolerance toward its known enemies." U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy had a stinging comment: "I doubt, that [Hedler] can or will ever be acquitted morally by public opinion...