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Westchester-on-the-Rhine. Striking proof of Germany's resurgence is to be found in the university town of Bonn (pop. 124,000), on the banks of the Rhine 15 miles south of Cologne. It lies in the British zone, but like Washington, D.C., it is a neutral enclave, which West Germans have made their capital. In recognition of this, the U.S. is now moving out of its occupation headquarters in Frankfurt (in the unbombed I. G. Farben office building), to make its new GHQ in Bonn. This move is symbolic of Bonn's status as the newest...
Almost every day this month, moving vans from Frankfurt-am-Main have lumbered into Bonn. Behind them trailed the chrome-grinning cars of U.S. occupation families, loaded with children, cats and dogs, Bavarian cuckoo clocks. Some 1,000 U.S. occupation employees and dependents attached to the Office of U.S. High Commissioner for Germany-HICOG for short-have moved to the capital. In overcrowded Bonn, they will jostle beside burgeoning French and British communities...
...make the move, the U.S. has spent nearly $25 million to build a Westchester-on-the-Rhine on several acres of apple orchards and woodland in Bad Godesberg, a suburb on the southern edge of Bonn. For HICOG headquarters, there is a seven-section concrete and glass structure with a 1,500-seat cafeteria and a 100,000-volume library. Four miles away stands a cluster of new two-story apartment houses, 458 apartments in all, each furnished down to the last curtain, dessert spoon and teacup. They range from tasteful bedroom, living room, kitchen combinations for bachelors to four...
First in Germany. The change of command at Bonn last week was symbolic in more ways than one. For Werner Richter, 63, is not only a longtime anti-Nazi, he is also a U.S. citizen-the first ever to be elected head of a major German university.* A onetime full professor at the University of Berlin, he was driven out of Germany by the Nazis, took out citizenship papers in the U.S., has been teaching on U.S. campuses (Elmhurst College in Illinois, Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania) since 1938. It was only on a temporary basis that he returned to Germany...
...when he began teaching at Bonn in 1948, the university soon found that it liked what he had learned about U.S. ways of education. Students flocked to his seminars, crowded into his lectures, and Richter himself rose to the rank of dean of the philosophy faculty. Said one student: "He is the only professor with a universal approach. The others keep their eyes glued to their specialty...