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...situation has become so bad that one Christian Democratic Deputy has proposed "measures to defend our soldiers against attack by the population." Munich's Suddeutsche Zeitung editorialized wryly: "The Bundeswehr is being established for the protection of the state. Is the state now supposed to protect its soldiers against citizens...
September has been a cruel month for modern Europe. In September 1938 there was Munich. In September 1939, World War II. In September 1940, the Luftwaffe and the Battle of Britain. Now another September had come and with it talk of war and a crisis pertinent to the survival of Britain and France as great powers...
...Munich, where a G.I. clubbed a young bricklayer to death in front of his 18-year-old bride, 50 riot-squad cars prowled the streets, and residential areas were placed off limits to G.I.s...
...Western journalists admitted to the Chinese Communist mainland in recent years is German Photographer Hilmar Pabel, member of the staff of the Munich picture magazine Quick. Pabel applied for a visa while covering the Moscow visit of a West German soccer team. A few months later, he was surprised when it was granted, with only one restriction: no photographs of military installations. In China, he roamed for ten weeks from Canton to Manchuria, interviewing Chinese and making a photographic record of whatever he saw. During five weeks in Peking, he met ten of the 16 remaining U.S. prisoners...
Faith & Works. Born 68 years ago in the Ruhr Valley, Albers prepared slowly and thoroughly for his distinguished career. After studying and teaching in Berlin, Essen and Munich, he went back to art school at 32 in the Bauhaus, founded by Functional Architect Walter Gropius. At 35 he became a teacher at the Bauhaus, working alongside Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. In the craftsmanlike tradition of the school, he designed the first modern bent laminated-wood chair, made stained glass windows out of broken bottles. When Hitler closed the Bauhaus...