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Born in 1895. Moholy-Nagy took up painting after World War I and migrated to Berlin in 1920. He first gained fame through his work as a teacher in he Bauhaus at Weimar under Walter Gropius, now professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design...
Born in 1895, Moholy-Nagy took up painting after World War I and migrated to Borlin in 1920. He first gained fame through his work as a teacher in the Baubaus at Weimar under Walter Gropins, now professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design...
...overflow congregation in the Martin Luther Church: "We must break our ties with the day before yesterday, for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesterday. Let us create a new day in which God's will prevails." By "the day before yesterday" he meant the Weimar republic...
Among the Flowers. A powerful leader of the Center (a Catholic party that was the most stable of all parties in the Weimar Republic), Adenauer was openly hostile to the Nazis from the moment they started rising to power. When Hitler was about to visit Cologne in 1933, his fanatic followers draped the great Rhine bridge with huge swastikas. Adenauer ordered his police to tear them down. Goring promptly ordered Adenauer's discharge from office and banishment from Cologne. Adenauer found asylum in a convent on an island down the Rhine...
...probably form a government next month in coalition with the Free Democrats; whether the Socialists would enter the coalition remained doubtful. As he viewed his victory Adenauer might feel some discomfort in the fact that just 30 years ago Germany launched another hopeful democratic experiment in the ill-fated Weimar Republic. U.S. occupation officers, pleased by the election's outcome, wished Adenauer luck; he would need...