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...antiques stands at more than $60 million a year, three times what it was before the war. Prices have doubled in the past two years. These startling statistics were underlined last week by the breakneck rush of business at the fourth annual Art and Antiques Fair at Munich's Haus der Kunst, which 'was for many years a U.S. officers' club. 0f Gothic figures and paintings, one in four was imported from the U.S. It was a far cry from the days just after World War II, when starving German families were trading heirlooms for food...
...partisans once again fought both the Wehrmacht and the Red army in a vain effort to carve a free Ukraine out of the confusion at war's end. To avoid Russian agents, he fled to West Germany in 1945, but shuttled back and forth in various disguises between Munich and the Ukraine, bringing encouragement and funds to the partisan army, which fought on for four more years before being finally subdued by the Soviets. (Stalin's vice-lord for suppressing the Ukrainians: Nikita Khrushchev...
After that, using the name Stefan Popel, Bandera lived with his wife and three children in Munich, protected constantly by bodyguards. Fortnight ago. leaving his modest apartment, he went back upstairs for something he had forgotten, leaving his bodyguard waiting in the street. A moment later there was a cry, and neighbors found him lying with a broken neck on the stair landing. An autopsy disclosed the real cause of death: cyanide...
...Though Munich police said the circumstantial evidence indicated suicide, Bandera's followers were convinced that he had been tricked or overpowered into taking the cyanide, grimly printed in the funeral announcement: "Died a hero's death at the Bolshevists' hands." And last week in Munich's Waldfriedhof, as 1,500 Eastern European exiles watched silently, Bandera's coffin, draped with the blue-and-yellow banner of Ukrainian independence, was lowered into a simple grave hallowed by an urn full of Ukrainian soil...
...move from the Bach Society to the HRO, however, Senturia took the long route around: Gaining experience in Munich through study and by work for a few weeks "with a second-rate opera company, one which traveled from village to village presenting operas." As recipient of the Paine Traveling Fellowship in Music during 1958-59, he studied at the Munich Conservatory--and even gained an offer of a job conducting an orchestra for Siemens Electric, "the General Electric of Germany...