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Four blocks from Munich's Brown House, the crumbled cornerstone of Naziism, the U.S. Military Government runs Germany's biggest publishing plant. Once its giant presses spewed forth Hitler's venomous Völkischer Beobachter; now they supply Germans with news of a democratic flavor. No force-feeding is needed: Die Neue Zeitung, a thrice-weekly paper; Heute, a picture magazine; Der Monat, a political monthly; and Neue Auslese, a cultural digest, all sell like piping-hot Kartoffelpuffer...
...paper has greater influence; only Die Welt (circ. 900,000), sponsored by the British military government, is bigger. The Zeitung subscribes to A.P., U.P., I. N.S. and Reuters, and most of its six oversized pages are devoted to news and thoughtful comment on world events; even a good Munich murder has to fight for space. Until the Russians banned Western zone publications last summer, the Zeitung sold 300,000 copies in the Soviet zone alone. Now its circulation (at 6? a copy) is 840,000 in the U.S., British and French zones...
...Munich, Publisher Felix Buttersack moaned: "What shall I do?" Two hours after the polls closed, his newspaper, Merkur, had scooped Bavaria with the headline: THOMAS E. DEWEY-AMERICA'S NEW PRESiDENT.† Merkur carried a vivid account of how the victorious Governor Dewey had thanked the people in a radio address. Buttersack said he had simply trusted the polls. "What," added Felix Buttersack, "is Dr. Gallup going...
Twenty-eight-year-old Lieut. Piotr Pirogov and his copilot, Anatoly Barsov, had been planning for a year to escape from Russia and get to the U.S. They had left their base near Lwow, formerly Poland, on a routine training flight that morning and headed for Munich in the U.S. zone of Germany. The third member of their crew, a flight sergeant, was not in on the lieutenants' plan. When they were airborne, Pirogov told the sergeant he could either come along or bail out while still over Russian territory. Since there were no parachutes in the plane...
...experience with a woman, a prostitute; but it leaves him with a disease that alternately retards and heightens his work and leaves him a senile wreck at the end. Perhaps the best and most readable section of Faustus describes Adrian's years in a rustic Bavarian retreat near Munich. Mann's description of Munich's cultural and pseudo-intellectual crowd between wars, and their stiff-necked, neurotic Kultur helps explain how an Austrian fanatic got them to eat out of his hand...