Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architect in chief and Minister of Armaments and War Production has now completed a second memoir called Spandauer Tagebücher (Spandau Diaries). Appearing in serialized form in the West German daily Die Welt beginning next week, the Diaries cover Speer's years as an inmate in West Berlin's Spandau War Crimes Prison for forcing millions of non-Germans to work as slave laborers in the Third Reich's factories during World...
...Except for the Russians, they tended to be lax about minor infractions of the rules. At first, prison rules were aimed at keeping us in the dark regarding political developments. If it were not for the guards, for instance, we would never have known that the Russians had blockaded Berlin and that an airlift was under way." Later, however, the prisoners were allowed to read newspapers and books...
...West German visit "with mixed feelings as a Jew and as an Israeli." A Sabra who was born in 1922 on a farm near Jerusalem, Rabin nonetheless still counts himself "an heir to the Holocaust." As if to emphasize that point, his next stop after Bergen-Belsen was West Berlin, where he paid a visit to the city's Jewish Community Center. It stands on the site of what was once Berlin's Central Synagogue. All that remains of the original building is a chunk of wall. The rest was destroyed on the notorious "Crystal Night...
...equally at home designing mud-brick houses for Zambian peasants or diagramming his thoughts (with multicolored felt-tip pens) for Western intellectuals. He was born in 1913 of Greek parents in Bulgaria, was bred and educated in Athens, and earned a graduate degree in Berlin. His talent shone early: at 23 he became Athens' top town planner; at 25 he was chief of regional planning for all Greece. Then came World War II (Doxiadis was a Resistance hero) and after it the job of supervising the reconstruction of 3,000 ravaged Greek villages...
Died. Robert Stolz, 94, prolific Austrian-born composer; in West Berlin. Once considered the musical heir of Johann Strauss Jr., Stolz wrote some 50 operettas, 100 film scores and 2,000 songs, including Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time, whose tune he scribbled on a menu in the early 1930s while sitting in Vienna's famed Cafe Sacher...