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...Hamburg patrician, is a school where German youths in the British zone may take a ten-day "quickie" course in the principles of Christianity. The only such school in Germany, it was set up by the Rev. Neil Nye, an R.A.F. warden, to supplement the secular re-education of young Germans who have known no god but Hitler. The school's stated aim: to fill "the need for a definite and satisfying faith on which to rebuild the life of Europe." No Church of England outpost, St. Michael's House has an all-German lecturing and administrative staff...
Before another all-German denazification tribunal, foxy old Papen was making a belligerent defense. The prosecution contended that he had forged the Hindenburg will which aided Hitler's accession to power; Papen hotly denied it, later broke down and wept because "nobody would believe him." His prospects of acquittal were not noticeably brightened when a sympathizer's bomb exploded harmlessly in the office of the court's president, Camil Sachs...
First major step was the organization of five all-German ministries (transport, finance, communications, trade, industry) which are to be directly responsible to the Allied Control Council. The second was an economic program for the whole of Germany...
...divisions "routed" in the southern offensive, were Rumanian and Italian. At some points of the Russians' first advances, satellite troops outnumbered the Germans 5-to-2. This probably explained the bag of 137,650 prisoners-the first such claims ever made by the Red Army. Cracking the 20 all-German divisions at Stalingrad will be a tougher task...
...World War ended Hohenzollern dreams of an all-German Berlin-to-Bagdad Railway. But today one can go by rail to Bagdad from Berlin (or Paris) with only two breaks, the ferryboat ride across Turkey's Bosphorus and the bus ride over a 125-mi. stretch of uncompleted Irak railway...