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Emil Ludwig, best-selling biographer (Napoleon, Bismarck, Cleopatra, Roosevelt), whose books were once burned by the Nazis (he is a Jew), was again a banned author in Germany., This time he was verboten in the Russian zone for being too "militaristic...
...Bismarck. 4. Spitsbergen...
...elaborate, gold-fringed banner with the same colors, and beside it lay a wooden mallet covered with faded signatures. Meeting here amid Berlin's ruins was a chapter of Saxo-Borussia, one of the most important of the long-forbidden student corps which, long before Adolf Hitler, fostered Bismarck's "blood & iron" ideals of an imperialistic Greater Germany. These middle-aged men, huddled in threadbare coats, drinking a hot brew instead of the good old Moselle wine, might seem almost pitifully ridiculous. But their German dream had made Hitler and, given another chance, they might attain power once...
...would maintain a rigid, good-sized, well-disciplined occupational force. So their cunning minds lead them to bow over backwards, knowing that this attitude will soon reassure us that these poor misled people have learned their lesson. So we will go home and live happily ever after-until another Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, or Hitler climbs onto a balcony and starts screaming...
...rushed this terrible news to the outside world. Covering the main deck with swathes of freshly cut grass, Pilot Marsh took aboard some 50 of the wounded survivors, ordered his engineer to get up a head of steam, drove his vessel from the mouth of the Big Horn to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, in 54 hours- at the unprecedented speed of 13 miles an hour. The local telegraph office had the news within minutes of the Far West's arrival. The next morning the world at large had it-Bismarck, D.T., July 5, 1876: General Custer attacked the Indians June...