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When Willy Brandt's traditionally antimilitary Social Democratic Party took the helm in Bonn last fall, the unhappy men of the Bundeswehr were certain that bad would go to worse. They were concerned when Brandt chose as his Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt, then the party's Bundestag floor leader, who did not even want the job because it was regarded as a political graveyard. Concern turned to alarm when Schmidt created a McNamara-like think tank headed by Dr. Theo Sommer, 39, an intellectual and deputy editor of the highly regarded liberal weekly Die Zeit; to some military...
Bahr's assignment caught just about everyone by surprise. Brandt decided to use the dramatic gesture as a litmus of Soviet intentions. In three sessions last month with West German Ambassador Helmut Allardt, Gromyko set forth hard conditions, including Bonn's recognition of East Germany, before Moscow would consider signing a renunciation-of-force treaty with West Germany...
...journal of its own. Now it has not one but two. From the basement of a St. Pauli curio shop has emerged the St. Pauli Nachrichten, a 15? tabloid whose circulation has swelled almost as remarkably as the Sexwelle itself. First published in early 1968 by burly Hamburger Helmut Rosenberg, 33, owner of the curio shop, and by a former Der Spiegel photographer named Günter Zint, the rag has grown from a four-page novelty with a press run of 10,000 to a twice-monthly 16-page paper with a circulation of 700,000, including...
...fullest: he takes his sweet time in depicting each sick ritual of his metaphorical family. But while you may be revolted by it, you might love it-and, God, in either case, there is no chance you will forget it. Ingrid Thulin, Dirk Bogarde and a fine actor named Helmut Berger star...
...February night in 1933, the family gathers to pay birthday tribute to its patriarch, Baron Joachim, head of the vast Von Essenbeck steelworks on the Ruhr. Gathered around the birthday table are Martin, the Baron's deviate grandson (Helmut Berger), an off-again, on-again faggot with an occasional taste for whores and five-year-old girls; Martin's mother Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), a glacial blonde castrator, with her power-hungry lover (Dirk Bogarde); and assorted relatives who reveal such minor personality flaws as criminality, sadism, cowardice, and a timely penchant for Nazism...