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Once a year quaint medieval Nürnberg finds its population tripled by the marching, seething squash of Adolf Hitler's Party Congress. Last week on Adolf Hitler Platz as 800,000 pairs of German boots came pounding in, one canny shopkeeper was swamped with business beneath his sign "Are your feet tired? Try our special powder...
From Nürnberg last week famed New York Timeswoman Anne O'Hare McCormick reported Nazi activities even more unbusinesslike: "This is the worst spot in Germany for Jews. All they suffer elsewhere is exaggerated here...
...rnberg] illustrates the best and the worst features of Nazi local government. Nowhere else has the winter relief campaign been carried on with livelier zeal. The poor are well taken care of, order has replaced former disorder, and the restoration of historic buildings and civil beautification are proceeding on all sides. Unemployment has been reduced from 70,000 to 25,000 in two years, notwithstanding that the chief manufactures-toys, lead pencils, brushes and Diesel engines- largely depend on an export market that is now near the vanishing point...
...Caspar Hauser, 17, stumbling alone into Nürnberg, stimulated general curiosity because he could neither walk nor talk better than a child of two. He could remember that he had always lived in darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically with a toy horse. This data formed the basis of a famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth...
...when Bismarck's iron mastiffs were seeking quiet kennels wherein to rest after their leap on France, Richard Wagner looked for a place to make a home for his old age. He chose Bayreuth-a village three hours by train from Nürnberg, visited by few tourists. With the help of Ludwig, King of Bavaria, he built his theatre-an enormous mousetrap to which the world soon began to beat a path. Nearby, he built his house...