Word: weimar
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...carried on between the warring nations. Nuncio Pacelli was entrusted with Benedict XV's famed peace proposals which German liberal politicians seriously considered. Later, in the first of Germany's numerous small putsches, Pacelli was nearly assassinated in the streets of Munich. With the founding of the Weimar Republic he established a nunciature at Berlin, arranged concordats between the Vatican and Bavaria and Prussia before returning to Rome in 1929 to accept a Cardinal's red hat. Two months later Cardinal Pacelli succeeded aging Cardinal Gasparri as the Pope's Secretary of State...
Article LXI of the Weimar Constitution is constructed entirely on the hypothesis that Austria is already German, its mystic words being, "German Austria, after its Anschluss (union) to the German Reich, shall receive the right of voting representation in proportion to its population. Until that time the representatives of German Austria shall have a consulting voice...
...glance at Paul Dietz' life will show his wide experience. Born in Weimar, his theatrical inclinations early lead him to the State Theatres of Lubeck and Bremen, and eventually to the Court Theatre in Gotha, where his record includes distinguished auditions in "Faust," "Othello," and "Wilhelm Tell...
...able administrator, he turned his museum into a splendidly staffed and equipped capital of scientific research. Died. Frau Elizabeth FÖrster-Nietzsche, 89, only surviving sister of the late Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, his nurse and secretary during the eleven years before his death in 1900; in Weimar...
According to State Secretary Lammers, the present German Constitution signed at Weimar in 1919 may now be considered a negligible scrap of paper. "The Leader does not want Germany to have a documentary constitution," explained Dr. Lammers. "The State must reach deep into the life of the individual. The present laws regulating the life of the German and his personal liberty are only a beginning. The fundamental purpose of our State is the creation of a new type of human being. No constitution is needed since all responsibility rests with the Leader, Adolf Hitler...