TIME Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.

Current subscribers for full access. Not a TIME subscriber? .

GERMANY: Meanest Mother

Sullen Frau Charlotte Juenemann, though with child, had her head struck off in Berlin last week. Notorious since her arrest early this year as the "World's Meanest Mother," Frau Juenemann let her three young children starve to death in a cellar while she spent her last few marks making the rounds of Berlin's cheaper night clubs. Since Herr Juenemann is in an insane asylum, Germany's New Justice assumed that her unborn babe would be a debit to the race.

...

Quotes of the Day »

RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.