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Ley is a lunar impact crater that is located across the southern rim of the much larger Campbell impact basin. Intruding into the south-southwestern rim of Ley is the slightly larger Von Neumann crater.
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After the war Ley returned to university, gaining a doctorate in 1920. He was employed as a food chemist by a branch of the giant IG Farben company, based in Leverkusen in the Ruhr. Enraged by the French occupation of the Ruhr in 1924, Ley became an ultra-nationalist and joined the Nazi Party soon after reading Adolf Hitler's speech at his trial following the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. By 1925 he was Gauleiter of the Southern Rhineland district and editor of a virulently anti-Semitic Nazi newspaper, the Westdeutsche Beobachter. Ley proved unswervingly loyal to Hitler, which led the party leader to ignore complaints about his arrogance, incompetence and drunkenness.[3]
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With the assistance of Tabu Ley she produced and sang several songs which became instant hits. The list includes Faux pas , Kamunga , Eswi yo wapi , Beyanga , Wendenda , Nadina etc etc. The biggest hit of all was probably "Mobali na Ngai wana (which means This husband of mine). In the song she lavished Tabu Ley with praises such as He is rich , handsome , gifted etc. Mbilia Bel became the first female singer to gain acclamation throughout Africa. Tabu Ley and Mbilia Bel later got married and had one child together.
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Ley was always aware that the central objective of the Third Reich, and of his leadership of the DAF, was to prepare Germany for war. He said in a speech in 1939: "We National Socialists have monopolized all resources and all our energies during the past seven years so as to be able to be equipped for the supreme effort of battle."[8] With the actual outbreak of World War II in 1939... Ley's importance declined. The militarisation of the workforce and the diversion of resources to the war greatly reduced the role of the DAF, and the KdF was largely wound up. Ley's drunkenness and erratic behaviour were less tolerated in wartime, and he was supplanted by Armaments Minister Fritz Todt and his successor Albert Speer as the czar of the German workforce (the head of the Organisation Todt (OT)). As German workers were increasingly conscripted, foreign workers, first "guest workers" from France and later slave labourers from Poland, Ukraine and other eastern countries, were brought in to replace them. Ley played some role in this program, but was overshadowed by Fritz Sauckel, General Plenipotentiary for the Distribution of Labour (Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz), in 1942.
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Ley was arrested by American troops with the 101st U.S. Airborne Division at his mountain home near the Austrian border. At the time of his capture, Ley was posing as Dr. Ernst Distelmeyer, but he was identified by Franz Xaver Schwarz, the former treasurer of the Nazi Party and one of Ley's oldest enemies.
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Having done more than anyone to convince the American public of the potential for manned spaceflight, Ley died just weeks before the Apollo landing on the moon in 1969. He was survived by his wife, Olga. Generations of his readers were motivated to enter careers not just in rocketry, but in many other fields of science as well.
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