Word: weimar
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These men, headed by Berlin Communist Walter Bartel, had drafted a blueprint for Germany. They wanted: 1) a popular front of anti-fascist committees to provide the framework of an interim government; 2) re-establishment of a modified form of the Weimar Republic; 3) federalization of the new Reich to prevent domination by Prussia; 4) confiscation of all Nazi property; 5) close economic relations with Russia; 6) educational reform...
...least one former Buchenwald prisoner was already engaged in governing post-Nazi Germany. By order of the military government, Herr Doktor X (anonymous under Allied rules) was taken from the concentration camp to become mayor of nearby Weimar. Mild, elderly Dr. X had been a Social Democrat, a secondary-school director, a "passive" anti-Nazi. His first job in Weimar was to purge minor Brown Shirts from minor municipal posts. On May Day he sought to fly the old black, gold and red flag of the Weimar Republic from his city hall. He ransacked the city, but he could find...
When the U.S. Army entered Weimar, it found that the mortal remains of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had disappeared on an iron-age pilgrimage never dreamed of by Poet Matthew Arnold. Also missing from its place beside Goethe in the city's Friedhof (cemetery) was the coffin of Goethe's great friend and fellow poet, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller...
...disappearance was the work of the Nazis. When it became clear that Weimar would fall, an alarmed Nazi Gauleiter ordered the poets' bodies taken to Jena. Two unnamed German civilians-a doctor of philosophy and a lawyer-carried out the order, concealed the coffins in an air-raid bunker beneath a hospital. Then the U.S. Army neared Jena. This time the Gauleiter ordered SS men to destroy the bodies so that they would not fall into the hands of the "American barbarians." But the bodies had disappeared. So had the two Germans in charge of them...
Last week the doctor of philosophy and the lawyer reappeared. Reverently, they turned over to the U.S. forces the two poets' remains (which they had hidden with some household furniture). Soon they would lie again side by side in Weimar. In the light of the disaster which living Germans had brought upon themselves, Arnold's lines on Goethe had almost the ring of prophecy...