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...German political factions, including the Communists, cheered the news of the invasion. Fresh from Helgoland, where a century ago Poet Hoffmann, von Fallers-leben had written Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, Invader Leudesdorff exulted: "This is the first time since the war that all Germans are united...
...united. Returned Helgolanders, intent on making the island livable, scrounged among the rubble for furniture and firewood. They growled at Prince Hubertus and other intellectuals, who were too busy pecking out manifestoes and newspaper reports on their portable typewriter to lend" a hand. One invader, dubbed the Totengräber (gravedigger) by his disapproving companions, kept completely to himself, spent all his time rearranging skulls and bones in the island's ruined cemetery...
...Turn. Bing's future turned dark before it brightened much. After two years in Darmstadt, he went back to Ber lin as artistic administrator of the Municipal Theater. Ebert arrived the next year. The following year, 1933, all hands were summarily dismissed by the Nazis. Bing went home to Vienna, then to a tiny theater near Prague, where he helped produce "absurd" things, such as Figaro in modern dress...
...Germany's past kept cropping up during the day. One stolid old politician wanted a verse of Deutschland über Alles included in the ceremonies. And there was the riverboat contretemps. Bonn, desperately short of housing, commissioned the Cologne-Düsseldorf Steamship Co. to tie up a big river liner near the city. The line told Bonn that the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm would be there. Himmel! croaked the Bonn officials, the name might cause criticism. Replied the ship line: "S.S. Bismarck coming." That was worse. Bonn wired: "Send Kaiser Wilhelm, but hide name with sign reading 'Hotel...
...officer in the Imperial German-Navy, young Niemöller had thrilled to Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, played on the ship's phonograph while torpedoes from his submarine tore the bottoms from Allied ships. When Hitler rose to power, Niemöller rejected Nazi racism, but accepted the bulk of Nazi authoritarian. doctrine, and did not rebel until Hitler encroached on his church. His defiance cost him eight years in Hitler's concentration camps. Yet, twice during his internment-which earned him a reputation as Protestantism's outstanding martyr to the Nazis-Niemöller unsuccessfully...