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...blood. Werner lost no time putting the new constitution into effect: he promptly killed the boy who had tattled. Thus cleansed, the gang went into action. They held up a cigar store, tried to kill a bank messenger (whose briefcase proved to be empty) and stuck up a small Munich hotel. Their take was next to nothing...
Hugo Werner was a tough, bossy German kid who liked to play cowboys and Indians. When his father was killed in an Allied air raid on Munich in 1943, twelve-year-old Hugo was shipped off to a children's camp in the country. There, as Hitler's armies crumbled, dark-eyed little Hugo recruited an army of his own; he called it the Panther Bande. One morning last week Hugo Werner, 22, and seven of his Panthers shuffled awkwardly into a Munich courtroom and went on trial for a series of three cold-blooded murders...
Amid the ruins of postwar Munich, thousands of homeless and hungry kids like the Panthers hung around U.S. Army camps, begging food and money, stealing when they could not beg. The Panthers were more resourceful than most. In the summer of 1946, the Panthers dug up a formidable arsenal of pistols, carbines and even one light machine gun abandoned by the Wehrmacht near Munich...
Last week Munich was getting a new church to replace the old Neo-Renaissance building, but it was not the kind most churchgoers expected. For their design, the Lutherans had turned to Architect Gustav Gsaenger, 53, asked him for something that would cost no more than to rebuild the old church, yet would hold twice as large a congregation. Architect Gsaenger's proposal: a stark, clean-lined, oblong structure, to hold 1,000 worshipers and cost only 2,500,000 marks (about $595,000). Gsaenger's church has no traditional spire, no cruciform nave. Instead, it will have...
...news brought howls of rage and angry letters from Munich's conservatives. Wrote one aroused citizen: "We don't want Neo-Gothic brick churches, but we don't want gas stations, either." The protests fell on deaf ears. Munich's Lutherans had already steered the design past the city art commission. The ground, they announced, will be broken this month...