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This last fact is rammed home early by a painting, Onkel Rudi (Uncle Rudi), 1965, enlarged from a snapshot of Richter's uncle grinning broadly, about to go to the front in his uniform. The uniform is a double-breasted Wehrmacht overcoat, for Uncle died for his Fuhrer. It comes as a shock. What is that damn Nazi doing in the Museum of Modern Art? His real home is even more jarring: Richter gave the painting to the memorial in Lidice, Czech Republic, commemorating one of the horrific slaughters of World War II. The image, taken from a family photo...
Torchlight Serenade. It was Erhard's first independent campaign since he took over as Chancellor from Konrad Adenauer, and he scored an impressive personal victory over West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. Observers had wondered whether Onkel Ludwig's earnest, professorial platform style might not bore the voters. As it turned out, they seemed to lap it up. On election night, 60 teen-agers dropped around to serenade him by the light of torches and a pale quarter-moon. The tune was his campaign song...
...Leader Willy Brandt's Social Democrats. The response seemed to augur well for the campaign strategy Erhard's advisers have urged upon him, which is to mute his attacks on the Social Democrats, steer clear of elaborate matters of foreign policy, and present himself as an apolitical Onkel. It is a role Erhard is well suited for, being apolitical by nature, bashful about handshakes, and gifted with a meandering professorial style useful mainly for drowning out hecklers. In the Wilhelms-haven suburb of Jever, Erhard rambled happily on through his speech, altogether forgetting to mention the local candidate...
Nights and days run together. The Russians and the Americans meet at the Elbe. Hitler shuffles paper armies, daydreams in helpless fury of destroying the world. A moment later, the six Goebbels children are romping about their Onkel Adolf like pretty puppies. The young captain gets drunk and shoots off his mouth. Himmler offers peace without Hitler's consent. Eva's brother-in-law is shot, on Hitler's orders, as a deserter; and on Hitler's orders a Berlin subway, full of German women and children, is flooded to keep the Russians...
...Part of the Onkel Tom quarter of Berlin, which got its name from a book which became as well known in Europe as in its native setting -Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin...