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The Club became world-famous with the presentation of the Miracle Plays at the Germanic Museum in 1922-1932. Actual cathedral backgrounds of the museum were used as scenery to give a realistic impression.
For more than two years, the biggest U.S. drug manufacturer, Sterling Drug Inc., has been purging itself of its prewar Germanic taint by flooding Latin America, where it used to act as agent for huge I. G. Farbenindustrie, with strictly U.S. drugs. In so doing, it: 1) surprised itself by...
Pierre Monteux is also one of the very few Frenchmen whose favorite composer is the arch-Germanic Johannes Brahms. San Franciscans have marveled at the Rhine wine savor of his Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann, as well as the elegance of his Debussy and Ravel. Pierre Monteux's ranging tastes...
Heiden's new book is the Book-of-the-Month-Club's choice for February. It is a scrambled, 774-page history of Naziism and its principal characters from the earliest beginnings to the Purge of 1934, a biography of the Führer, a study of Germany...
Skiers ignored Hitler's demand for 20 blond Aryans to compete at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Himmler went to Norway and repeated the invitation, with threats. No results. Olympic Champion Birger Ruud announced that he would burn his skis before he would compete in compulsory Germanic sports.