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...surface episode without issue." H. G. Wells labeled it a poor copy of the Caesars. Although Charlemagne did not impress some modern historians, he did inspire the craftsmen and artists of his own era. This summer a mammoth exhibition of 700 Carolingian art works is on view in Aachen, Germany, the Emperor's historic seat of power...
Junk Show. While curators from Aachen to Zweibrücken eagerly await the disposition of the finest work, at least one government-endowed research foundation in Germany would like to get its hands on the junk. Munich's Institute for Contemporary History is attempting a scientific analysis of Nazism, and one of its pet ideas is a public exhibit of what Hitler liked. The last time art was displayed in Germany for such unartistic reasons was the infamous 1938 degenerate art show-composed of what Hitler did not like...
...Aachen, West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt unveiled a memorial to European unity with the plea that "the dead of the nations of Europe shall not have passed into nothingness." Free Democratic Party Leader Erich Mende in a broadcast beamed into East Germany reminded his listeners that it was Stalin's pact with Hitler a week earlier that had made the rape of Poland possible...
...Wallonia, with its played-out coal mines, has been plagued by chronic unemployment. Last year, when violent riots broke out between the two factions, the Flemish majority in Parliament passed a law dividing Belgium into two separate unilingual sections along a line extending from the German border south of Aachen to the French frontier; to the north, Flemish would be the official language in schools, courts and administrative offices; to the south, only French would be recognized...
...Died. Theodore von Karman, 81, premier aerodynamicist; of a heart attack; in Aachen, West Germany (see SCIENCE...