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Germans insisted it was an old Bavarian drinking song. Americans and British thought it was one of their own. Anyhow, they all sang it. The Beer Barrel Polka became the Tipperary of World War II, rivaled in popularity only by Lili Marlene, which had more homesick appeal, but less oompah...
...Government. To the Allied Control Council the Russians also informally suggested names for an all-Germany civilian administration. But U.S. and British occupation authorities were still struggling to find German industrial, business and professional leaders for zonal posts. Before Potsdam, the Americans had set up local regimes and a Bavarian provincial administration. The emphasis was on "denazification." Political parties, trade unions, and political meetings (which the Russians encouraged) were forbidden. Now that has been changed. And last week General Dwight D. Eisenhower told the press: Germans in towns and rural areas will elect local officials of their own choosing before...
...From a Bavarian lakeside resort, the Stars and Stripes's Sergeant Joe Weston reported how news of the U.S. Army's lifting of the sharply-criticised non-fraternization ban was received by local Fräulein...
...little Bavarian Alpine village where the U.S. 10th Armored Division is stationed buzzed with rumors. The town of ornately painted, deep-eaved houses where G.I.s stroll, lounge and (officially) do not fraternize is Oberammergau, world-famed for its 300-year-old Passion Play. Of Oberammergau's 2,300 inhabitants, 700 are the saints, angels and Nazarenes of the awesome drama. Gossip wondered whether there would be a presentation of the Passion next year. Ticking off the names of former Pharisees and Apostles, citizens canvassed the possibilities the war had left...
Near Berchtesgaden is a little Bavarian village named Unterstein whose normal preoccupations are tourists and farming. Today Unterstein is an art center. In a whitewashed building, once a rest center for German railway workers, the American joist Airborne Division has put on display Hermann Goring's fabulous $200,000,000 collection of art works, the crème de la crème of the loot of Europe...