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Chemist Robert Havemann is a tortured German intellectual who embraced Communism before 1933 as a way to oppose Nazism. Then a topflight scientist at Berlin's famed Kaiser-Wilhelm (now Max Planck) Institute, he was saved from a Nazi death sentence when the German army argued that he could be more useful with his head on than off. As a result, he did chemical research for the Wehrmacht during World War II while locked up in Brandenburg Prison. After the war Communist Havemann became one of East Germany's star scholars, won the Patriotic Order of Merit from...
Profit will lure Hambros' seven partners almost anywhere. The bank was the first to help continental diamond cutters fleeing Nazism; from this risk it built a hefty business in London's diamond center. Hambros also runs 45 investment funds, and its Bishopsgate Property Investment Co. is the world's biggest fund dealing in real estate shares. In the U.S., Hambros has fared unevenly. "We lost our pants," admits Jack Hambro of a 1950 attempt to export more kippers and British honey. But in another project in which Hambros increased the exports of British cars, "we recovered...
...other hand is preoccupied with the concrete evils in a political and social world. His tyrants have historical and geographical reality, and this a depth of horror that Voltaire's did not. And Carbonnaux' Dr. Pangloss is frightingly recognizable as the "realist" spokesman who rationalizes in turn aristicracy, Nazism, Communism, sultanism, and transquilizers. It is harder for us to resolve this 20th century philosophical tale for the horror behind the comedy is so much more evident...
Request of History. After he became Chancellor at 73, an age when most men's careers are finished, Adenauer did more than make Germany "respectable" again; even as he bluntly admitted his country's guilt for war and for Nazism's horrors, he made clear to most of the world that a whole nation cannot be held guilty for all time. He himself distrusted his fellow countrymen-the "carnivorous sheep" who had followed Hitler to destruction-yet he also believed that "something good can and must be made of the Germans." His solution was to lead...
...Rabbit Race, one of three plays featured at the recent Edinburgh Festical of Music and Drama, records the hyprocrisy of a small Bavarian community as they struggle to ride the varying political winds since World War II. With only slight hesitation, they shift course and run before Nazism, fear of Nazism, total pacification, and anti-communist militancy. Serving as a foil to the townspeople is Alois Grubel, a one-time syndicalist, who has been made simple, sterile, and soprano during his stay in a concentration camp. There are two Aloises, one wishing only to breed rabbits and sing...