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Kretschmer showed no emotion as he listened to the sentencing.
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According to Barbara Feichtinger, a spokeswoman for the Staatsanwaltschaft Salzburg, the public prosecutor's office in Salzburg is investigating several individuals for potential financial wrongdoing, including former festival chief executive Michael Dewitte and Klaus Kretschmer, technical director of the summer Salzburg Festival.
A Classical Life in Allegro J. S. Marcus 2011
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As “humane” as Kretschmer seemed to Papa compared to his thug-gish predecessors, it was the major who dealt him the most devastating blow.
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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Then, Kretschmer proceeded to read the lines that, though my father was too stunned to follow at first, told him that he had been officially pardoned.
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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Since my mother had already regaled the secret policemen with the story of the scared cabbie, Kretschmer offered an official car to drive the two ex-convicts home.
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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A barber by training, Kretschmer, a slightly built man with thinning red hair and a low-key manner, took over when the brutal Babics failed to get my father to implicate others in his “nest of spies.”
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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“I will give you one and a half hours,” Major Kretschmer gruffly told my mother on the phone that same morning.
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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“Once before,” my father wrote to Major Arpad Kretschmer, from the depths of the Fo Utca in 1955, “ten years ago, we lost pretty much everything we owned and I have absolutely no hope that in my lifetime I can start to rebuild again.”
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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My Nana Connelly, whose story first inspired me; Selwa Anthony for her wisdom and care; Kim Wilkins, Julia Morton and Diane Morton, for reading early drafts; Kate Eady for hunting down pesky historical facts; Danny Kretschmer for providing photos on a deadline; and Julias workmates for answering questions of vernacular.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1955, my father, ever more despairing, wrote Major Kretschmer a heartbreaking letter which begins:
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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