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...combines the best features of a newspaper, an historical novel, a cinema, a course of lectures. Its scene is Munich and Bavaria, 1921-23. Central theme is the trial and imprisonment of one Martin Kruger, director of Munich's National Galleries. Krüger is persona non grata with the Bavarian government; on a trumped-up charge of perjury he is arrested and convicted. As his friends work for his release he becomes for them the symbol of justice; to the government his unjust imprisonment is an instance of good administration. But for each side Krüger is only a pawn...
...escaped from the world into an asylum. So carefully, logically, adroitly has Feuchtwanger marshaled the army of his characters that their individual stories move together like an orderly procession; you seem to see the movement of a whole people. Author Feuchtwanger is as fond of Munich, of Bavarian kindliness, humor, beauty as he is bitter towards Bavarian stupidity, cruelty, grossness, injustice. If his individual portraits had been as sharply drawn, as compelling as the giant canvas as a whole. Success would have been a masterpiece indeed...
...Author. A. M. Frey had published his first book when the War came, swept him into four years' service with a Bavarian medical unit up and down the Western Front. Afterwards he broke down. When he started to write again he gave the War a wide margin. The Cross Bearers, his first book to be translated into English, is also the first book in which he remembers...
Birthday. Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany. Day: Oct. 2. Age: 83. Celebration: at a retreat in the Bavarian Alps, gravely pondering political embroilments in Berlin...
With these last words Herr Hitler left Munich next day, so he said, for a "needed rest" in the Bavarian alps...