Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staying at a hotel in Paris, having his portrait painted by Meissonier. In the course of one of the sittings, he asked the painter which of his paintings was his favorite. Meissonier answered: "Le Renseignement. But it is in the hands of the enemies of France; it is in Berlin...
Credentials of Fear. So you will find it any afternoon on the third floor of the cinder-grey building at 54 Kantstrasse, in Berlin's British sector. The feet you stumble over have trudged from the Soviet zone. They are the tired feet of those who flee from the "people's democracy...
...tiny office at the end of the dark corridor, they are greeted by Helmuth Rosenow-a tall, thin man in his late 303. In Nazi days he was a courier in the Socialist underground, traveling regularly between Prague and Berlin...
Many of the thousands of refugees daily fleeing Communist tyranny make their way into Berlin. Last week, TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes visited a city government office newly set up to receive them. Hughes cabled...
...office lacks even a telephone) Jan. 1, the refugees have come at an average of 150 a day. Rosenow examines each person's credentials of fear: arrest certificates, summonses to work in uranium mines. A few lucky applicants are flown to Western Germany. Others must remain in Berlin, return to their homes, or continue their perilous journey afoot through the Russian zone to the West. Rosenow explained: "Panic alone is not enough. We have that everywhere. We can hope to help only those who must flee to live-and perhaps to fight again another...