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...least by omission-of not staying the Nazi slaughter of the German Jews, Playwright Rolf Hochhuth, in The Deputy, racked the stages of Europe and Broadway with controversy. Now another play, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by another German playwright, Heinar Kipphardt, now playing in Berlin and Munich, has become the talk of Europe. One key difference: Pius was dead and unable to refute the charges; J. Robert Oppenheimer, current Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, is very much alive, and furious...
GRUPPE SPUR - Osborne, 965A Madison Ave. at 75th. In 1957 four young Munich artists began exhibiting together, calling themselves the Gruppe Spur to describe their search for a new path. Lothar Fischer sculpts figures that resemble the inscrutable distortions of a first-grader's picture of teacher. Painter Heimrad Prem piles hills and houses in pell-mell landscapes, colors them pink. Hans-Peter Zimmer paints big green frogs that seem to have something to croak about. Helmut Sturm's Romeo and Juliet embrace in a tangled orgy of lines, their faces hidden by a bright red blush. Through...
Born a German in Neisse (now in Poland), Bloch graduated from Munich's Technische Hochschule in 1934. Because he was a Jew, he was not allowed to continue his studies. He spent two years in Switzerland, came to the U.S. in 1936, got his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1939, was naturalized in 1944. After an eight-year stint at the University of Chicago, he became Harvard's Higgins professor of biochemistry...
Then, ten years later, his name came up in testimony at the Ulm mass-murder trial, and West German investigators quietly began a closer look at his past. On a wintry day in January 1962, two plainclothesmen knocked on the door of Wolff's lakeside Munich villa and hauled him, protesting, off to jail. The charge: "Aiding and abetting murder in at least 300,000 instances...
...eleven weeks the trial dragged on, with Wolff, now 64 and ailing, stubbornly denying everything. Last week, impassive, he sat in the prisoner's box of Munich's Palace of Justice while Chief Judge Emil Mannhart took three hours to read the verdict, which found him guilty. The sentence: 15 years. "He was continuously engaged and was deeply entangled in guilt," said Judge Mannhart. "Himmler found in him his bureaucrat of death...