Word: hutten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself-sophisticated, modern, even decadent, when England and Germany were still medieval, while France and Spain were somewhere midway between the two stages. "Renounce your desire to see Rome, my friend; what you seek there is not to be found any longer," wrote the aristocratic German theologian Ulrich von Hutten: "You may live from plunder, commit murder and sacrilege . . . but if you do but bring money to Rome, you are a most respectable person. Virtue and heavenly blessings are sold here; you may even buy the privilege of sinning in future...
FRIEDRICH HARDERS at 42 is chief trustee of Dortmund-Hörder Hutten Union, Germany's largest steel company. He is a single-minded technician. Never a Nazi Party member, he still knows or cares little about politics but has managed to reach the conclusion that exporting to the East is bad "for the moment": "You can't send people iron and steel if there's a danger of their using it against...