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...seven co-saboteurs, including Haupt, attended a "sabotage school" at Brandenburg, near Berlin, graduated, were then U-boated to America. "We were to harm, wherever possible, all aluminum production in the United States. . . . The intent was to do the worst possible damage in this country. Our exact assignment was to damage aluminum plants of the Alcoa Company in Tennessee, California and Oregon, and to damage rail lines between these plants and war-production centers...
...concert had all the ingredients of a prosaic, academic affair, but the result was anything but stuffy. Three of Johann Sebastian Bach's six famous Brandenburg concertos were to be played by a small body of musicians (such an orchestra as Bach had in mind), with scrupulous regard for the composer's intentions (as deduced from a study of Bach manuscripts), without a conductor (as it would have been played in Bach's day). After Adolf Busch had put his Chamber Music Players through their paces last week in Manhattan's Town Hall-in their first...
...must have thought of the Knights of the Sword and the Teutonic Knights, who Germanized the shores of the Baltic, where the Hohenzollerns were to found their Kingdom, and of Friedrich Wilhelm, the Elector of Brandenburg, who helped bring about the Treaty of Westphalia after the Thirty Years' War that reduced Germany to ruin. It was Friedrich Wilhelm who started the Hohenzollerns on the road to the leadership of Germany, and his son, Friedrich I, who persuaded the Holy Roman Emperor to style him King in Prussia. Of Friedrich's grandson, Frederick the Great, the Kaiser must have...
...answered not only with gunfire but with taunts and with determination. They shouted a new version of the classic boast: "We shall throw them into the sea-into the Baltic Sea." They talked a little prematurely of the day the war would end-when Evzones would march through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin...
Bach-Third Brandenburg Concerto...