Word: augsburgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BERLIN, November 6--Side by side on the bulletin board of the new, modern post office in Augsburg, West Germany, are two notices. One is a brightly-colored poster showing scenes from East and West Germany under the bold legend: "Germany Indivisible." The other is an unobtrusive little card which announces that Soviet Zone authorities will not accept postal matter bearing the Federal Republic's "refugee stamp...
Semantic Denials. Unabashed, Pastor Crist tried to justify many of his denials by semantics (on the Ascension: "Ascend means to go up ... Where is up?"), insisted that all his teachings constituted "a permissible point of view within the Lutheran Church." Some Lutheran synods permit liberal interpretations of the Augsburg Confession, the 16th century work embodying basic Lutheran beliefs. But the Northwest Synod, although one of the more liberal U,S: Lutheran groups, clearly faced in Crist's teaching a threat to its basic tenets...
Chancellor Adenauer's well-laid plans for German rearmament also began to go awry. Outside the locked iron gates of Augsburg's Rosenau Stadium last week milled an overflow crowd of some 2,000 men-crutch-borne veterans and draftage youngsters. Derisively they barked the familiar German parade ground orders: Achtung. Vorwarts marsch. Rechts urn, links urn, rechts um." Inside the stadium restaurant, another 1,000 jammed crutch-littered tables, guzzling beer from massive mugs and laughing at the youngsters who mock goose-stepped around in paper hats...
Luftwaffe must now change over to defense against the West." Two months earlier Galland had visited Augsburg and flown the revolutionary new ME 262 jet fighter. He flashed word to Goring that the new plane, with its 500 m.p.h. speed, could end air attacks on the German heartland. Hitler, in what many Western airmen would now call one of the critical decisions of World War II, refused to permit emergency development of the plane because "the Luftwaffe had disappointed him too often in the past with promises" of new developments. Later, piling blunder on blunder, Hitler ordered the new fighter...
...MALCOLM H. MEYER U.S.A. Augsburg, Germany...