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Moreover, as in so many manuscript forgeries, a knowledgeable reading of the diaries was damning in itself. The forger or forgers had unknowingly perpetuated minor errors that historians had found in the Domarus book. The crowd at a Hitler rally in Breslau was put at half a million, for instance, whereas more reliable non-Domarus reports had estimated 130,000. Both the diaries and Domarus had General Franz Ritter Von Epp congratulating Hitler in 1937 on his 50th anniversary in army service, when the dictator was only 48 years old; the Führer had actually praised...
...Brahms was well-known as a composer of symphonies andlieder, it came as a shock to the German people when they heard a medley of their university songs composed by a master. Jarvi conducted the Academic Festival Overture, written after Brahms received an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau in 1880, with zest and oomph...
Never having attended college, the German composer shows his anti-elitism in his most popular orchestral work. Moreover, the overture came as Brahms' response to Breslau's tag for him--"the foremost composer of serious music today": the songs were about wine, women and sport. The last tune before the recapitulation, for example, is Fuchslied (Fox Hunt), played by two choppy bassoons imitating the way freshmen used to sing it. The piece ends with Gaudeamus Igitur, the most popular of student songs, probably still sung by most members of the Fly Club: "Let us rejoice when we are young...
...Right. Bonn's policy, from the early days of Konrad Adenauer through the present regime of Ludwig Erhard, has never publicly changed. Official West German maps label Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia Zurzeit unter Polnischer Verwaltung (temporarily under Polish administration), and Germans still refer wistfully to Wroclaw as Breslau. Bonn argues that until a reunited Germany negotiates its final World War II peace treaty with the Big Four (as called for in the 1945 Potsdam Agreement), Germany's boundaries remain those of 1937-the year before Adolf Hitler began his Gross Deutschland annexations...
...entertained Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At the end of the visit, Gromyko professed to be delighted to discover that the French accepted the existence of two Germanys. Though the French mumbled a denial later, the Germans were unconvinced-and an angry Strauss expostulated that "he who today renounces Breslau and Stettin will renounce Leipzig and Magdeburg tomorrow, and quite certainly Berlin the day after tomorrow...