Word: anti-nazi
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Democratic Ideals. It was Ray Lascoe's job to infuse the new prosperity with democratic ideals. There were free city council elections. As Oberbiirgermeister the councillors chose Johann Peter Brandenburg, 44, an anti-Nazi lawyer who shared Lascoe's enthusiasm. Lascoe wanted the council to meet town-meeting style; no Pforzheim municipal official had ever before exposed himself to public questioning. Brandenburg winced but obliged, and won the city's first elections...
Twenty years ago he was the secretary of a Lower Austrian farm party, and made it into a center of anti-Nazi activity. The day after Anschluss, the Gestapo arrested Figl, threw him into Dachau. Ha was released during the war, but resumed politicking, was rearrested and was on trial for his life the day the Red army came...
...week, retiring Rector Ernst Friesenhahn stood before 1,000 students, professors and guests to say a few words about himself and his successor. "It seems symbolic to me," said he, "that a rector who was refused a teaching position by the Nazis in 1933 is succeeded by a rector who was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933." Thereupon, anti-Nazi Ernst Friesenhahn, who will return to teaching law, took off his crimson cap and gown, handed the symbols of his office to anti-Nazi Werner Richter...
First in Germany. The change of command at Bonn last week was symbolic in more ways than one. For Werner Richter, 63, is not only a longtime anti-Nazi, he is also a U.S. citizen-the first ever to be elected head of a major German university.* A onetime full professor at the University of Berlin, he was driven out of Germany by the Nazis, took out citizenship papers in the U.S., has been teaching on U.S. campuses (Elmhurst College in Illinois, Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania) since 1938. It was only on a temporary basis that he returned to Germany...
...Polish-born miniature painter and caricaturist, who came to the U.S. in 1940; of a heart attack; in New Canaan, Conn. Fascinated by the manuscripts of medieval monks. he made a career of the lost art of manuscript illumination. During World War II, he turned his hand to anti-Nazi political cartoons (for PM, Collier's, LIFE), later collected the best of them in a book, The New Order. Coming out next year: his edition of Arabian Nights...