Word: brandenburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just behind Fischer in the new police setup was the minister of the interior of Brandenburg Province, Bernhard Bechler. Still in his 40's (and a former major in the Nazi Eighth army at Stalingrad), Bechler was as yet little known outside Berlin; but Berliners had begun to call him "the new Himmler." Talking with fellow Communists, Bechler was succinct. Said he recently: "We have until 1950, at the latest, to liquidate the bourgeois parties. By that time, the state police will be trebled and so well trained that, with the help of them and of the armed action...
...some desperate rubble, or even of three million German lives; it is, in large measure, the going price of freedom in spring, 1948. This great tomb of Naziism (and of the West's brittle illusion that you could do business with Communism) stands on the sad, sandy Brandenburg plain to test, perhaps for all time, the West's will and worth...
...Berlin. Until that day comes-if it does-they can continue battling to show the Russians that their Nervenkrieg has been far from an unqualified success-and to remind the Western powers that they are defending in Berlin something more than just 150,000 acres of this debris-laden Brandenburg plain. Is there anything else they...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, Hindemith's Mathis der Maler. Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky...
Works by three Germanic masters, Bach, Hindemith, and Beethoven were the meaty substance of this first program. Bach's First Brandenburg Concerto, as rendered by Dr. Koussevitzky, lacks the lightness and intimacy preferred by these familiar with the old Buseh recording; however the lush Boston reading found as much life and meaning in this music as its first performers must have in 1721. The horn and oboe soles, particularly in the irrepressible third minuet trio, were superlative...