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...three-score-and-ten, his homeland had soared and sunk through two great historical phases and entered a third. Two of these phases Konrad Adenauer had lived out in a routine of efficient ordinariness and relative obscurity. He was born (Jan. 5, 1876) in the age of Bismarck; he was already 42 when the Kaiser fell. Through the sad days of the Weimar Republic and the ugly early days of Naziism he was respected as veteran mayor of Cologne and a wily politician, until he was forced out of office by the Nazis, for whom he showed nothing but flinty...
...week the daily Stuttgarter Nachrichten reported that the weapon is at last losing some of its power. Partly because of the work of Brunswick's International Schoolbook Institute, French and German historians have begun to correlate their tunes. One case in point: Alsace-Lorraine, taken from France by Bismarck in 1871 and returned after the victories of Marshal Foch...
...Christian Democratic Party had won a clear majority of 244 out of 487 Bundestag (lower house) seats, giving the Christian Democrats voting control even without the extra 63 votes collected by their old coalition partners, the Free Democrats and the German Party. No German politician, not even Hitler or Bismarck, had ever received such a vote of confidence from his people in a free election...
...Germans are eligible to vote, and probably 80% of them will. They will elect 484 deputies to the Bundestag, but to most of them the issue is simpler than that. The issue is Ja or Nein for the man whom Winston Churchill has called the greatest German statesman since Bismarck: Konrad Adenauer. Adenauer himself believes that the "fate of Europe, the fate of Germany, the fate of our Christian civilization depends on the outcome of September 6." There is much in what he says...
...live and work at Haus Villigst are emigrants from the past," says Director Bismarck. "None of [them] wants to return to that past . . . They came from various ideological camps -Nazis, Communists, Social Democrats, Conservatives-and it is important that the essence of life for them proves to be readiness to serve, to do something that liberates one from oneself...