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...organization instead of the Hitler Youth, became a navy reconnaissance pilot during World War II and earned a doctorate in law from the University of Cologne in 1949. He was elected to the Bundestag in 1957 from a strongly Catholic district and achieved the cabinet post of Minister for All-German Affairs in 1962. Married, and the father of one daughter, he has been known as a flashy man about Bonn who drives fast cars, collects modern art, maintains a year-round suntan and keeps trim with daily swims. No longer quite so cocky as he used to be, Barzel...
...Nazis. He was an old-school Wilhelmist and a South German intellectual whose broad range of ideas included a distaste for modern mass man that could be traced through his friend Oswald Spengler and back to such Slavophiles as Dostoevsky and Danilevsky. Because of Reek's all-German background and community prestige, the Nazis appear to have tolerated a good deal of unsympathetic behavior from him. He invariably used the old greeting "God be praised" instead of "Heil Hitler." In 1940 he huffed out of a packed Berlin movie house during that famous newsreel in which Hitler jigs over...
Associate Editor David Tinnin, who wrote this week's cover story on Socialist Willy Brandt, has been following the evolution of postwar Germany since 1949, when he entered the University of Heidelberg. There he studied history and philosophy for four years; along the way, he also won two All-German collegiate track championships (in the 100 and 200 meter dashes)-and a German wife. When Kurt Kiesinger came to power in 1966, Tinnin wrote the cover story on the Chancellor that noted the waning days of the country's postwar era. In this week's story, which...
...Communist who masterminds the party's strategy. A terrible-tempered, pipe-smoking father figure, Wehner exercises absolute control over the ideological direction of the party. He will be Brandt's most influential adviser, and is likely to retain the Cabinet post of Minister for All-German Affairs that he held in the Grand Coalition...
...coalition's smooth operation is the unlikely friendship between a onetime Nazi functionary and a former Communist underground agent. Kiesinger seldom lets a morning go by without telephoning Herbert Wehner, the Socialists' No. 2 man, who is Minister for All-German Affairs...