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Walter Gropius, 49, was born in Alsace but moved to Berlin before he was 20. He fought through the War. afterwards became director of the Grand Ducal Art School at Weimar that developed into the famed Bauhaus at Dessau. The severe Dessau Bauhaus with its horizontal ribbons of windows has been called the cradle of the International Style. In Dessau, too, he showed what he could do in the field of low cost municipal housing...
...press dispatch from abroad gives another instance of the prevailing simplicity and sincerity of the German people as shown in their choice of a national war memorial. Near Weimar, the geographical center of the German nation, a great grove of the sort that is peculiarly the pride of Germany has been agreed upon by all the states for this purpose. From this tract, typically primitive yet orderly as German forests are, landscape architects are to carve out a monument more expressive of the German spirit than all the fine phrases of conventional inscriptions on polished stone. Taking nothing for granted...
...this country, when cities and universities are hurriedly going about the ironic business of carving up brave words for which brave sentiments have long since evaporated, it might be well to remember the honest solution that Weimar has found...
YOURS NOT TO REASON WHY. YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN A COMMAND. CARRY OUT ORDERS. THEN COME TO WEIMAR. ADOLF HITLER...
This view was doubly significant because Councilor Goerke was speaking not only of the insurrection in Berlin but also of a simultaneous Fascist setback in Thuringia. The reason why Leader Hitler was at Weimar last week, instead of at Munich, his usual headquarters, was a Socialist-Fascist tug of war in the Thuringian Diet...