Word: aachen
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...thunder trailed off into a tinkling minuet. The dust of Sidi Barrani, Stalingrad and Aachen had dissolved; and there, as in a dream, were the clipped green lawns of Sanssouci. There was a second palace, a big and ugly one, and a pretty little lake. And there were the Big Three, enjoying a summer evening of music...
When Adolf Hitler came in, Heinrich Hollands got out. He gave up his job as foreman of an Aachen newspaper composing room, and retired on a small pension rather than serve the Nazis. U.S. Psychological Warfare officers found him, when they went looking for a German to help them print a four-page weekly, the Aachener Nachrichten. Soon he was doing some of the editing; Army officers found that it was easier to make an editor out of) a printer than to make non-Nazis out of the available German editors...
...Aachen's moppets flocked back to the first German school reopened by the Allied Military Government. Belgium's Minister of Education Auguste Buisseret took the occasion to make a few remarks on the educational system from which they had recently been liberated. His remarks were a grudging tribute to the effectiveness of Nazi teaching methods. A considerable number of Belgian youngsters, said M. Buisseret, had been infected with Naziism during the occupation because of the Nazis' remarkably persuasive teaching. A set of 8,000 lantern slides and 300 movies were circulated from a central exchange in Germany...
Beside the smashed dragon's teeth of the Westwall at Aachen it is hard to find even a rusting fender. In the green fields of Bavaria, where the fighting ended only a few weeks ago, few signs of fighting are left. All of the smashed and pulverized equipment along the long road from Nor mandy to the Elbe is gone. For the reconstruction of war's broken materiel is already well under...
Europe's most illustrious displaced person was replaced last week. In 814, Charlemagne, first great founder of a western bloc in Europe, was buried in the basilica he had built in Aachen's cathedral. The body of the 6-ft. 4-in. monarch reclined in a silver-gilt casket, knobby with precious stones...