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Hitler by now lived and worked entirely underground, in a hidden mausoleum known as the Führerbunker. Dug in next to the Reich Chancellery in central Berlin, the bunker was nearly 60 ft. below street level; its earth-covered roof was 16 ft. thick (but leaky). It had 30 rooms, their concrete walls painted battleship gray. A staff of about 500 came and went. Here the Führer ate, slept, gave orders, shouted, raged. "Hitler never saw another sunrise or sunset after January," said an aide...
...Einstein, who was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany, in 1879, lived and worked in BERLIN for 18 years before migrating to the U.S. in 1933. And from May 16 to Sept. 30, "Albert Einstein-Chief Engineer of the Universe" runs in Berlin's Kronprinzenpalais (Crown Prince's Palace), now a museum. "Chief Engineer" is an interactive exhibition that uses films and touch-screen PCs to help visitors learn about Einstein's theories. For more info, call (49-30) 22667 344 or visit einsteinausstellung.de...
...Changwei has shot many of Chinese cinema's most imperial tours de force?Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Jiang Wen's Devils at the Doorstep. But his directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from its complex script (by the novelist Li Qiang), its imperfect characters and its emotional restraint in depicting...
...biggest losers. Isabelle Kronawitter, an economist at HVB Bank in Munich, calculates that if the court upholds the decision and makes it retroactive, it could cost the German government as much as j30 billion. That's a whopping 1.5% of Germany's gross domestic product, an amount that Berlin can ill afford at a time of squeezed budgets. At the Luxembourg hearing, the German government argued that the court should take into account the potentially huge budgetary repercussions. But Poiares Maduro explicitly...
...Rover's Longbridge factory in Birmingham fear for their jobs, despite British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown racing to the plant, promising a massive aid package to mitigate the damage. Just two days before, DaimlerChrysler chief executive Jürgen Schrempp faced a Berlin conference hall teeming with disgruntled shareholders. They attacked him for the company's biggest ever recall, announced on March 31, which will pull 1.3 million Mercedes-Benz cars worldwide back into the garage because of problems with voltage regulators, faulty software and defective braking systems in some models. They attacked...