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...open warfare against religion. In rigged elections, they pushed pro-Nazi clergymen into positions of authority in the provincial Lutheran churches. Pastor Martin Niemöller was arrested when he spoke out against their anti-Semitism from his pulpit. Dibelius preached from Niemöller's church in Dahlem the following Sunday, and was soon on trial himself. Although acquitted by an old-fashioned judge, he was suspended from his position as general superintendent of the Kurmark church district. Still, he kept up a stouthearted resistance. Once Albert Kerrl, Nazi Minister for Church Affairs, asked...
...Real Cigar. As the leader of German Protestantism, Dibelius lives in a spacious, old-fashioned house on Faradayweg (Faraday Lane) in the correct Dahlem suburb of West Berlin. A copy of Matthias Grünewald's great 16th century altarpiece hangs on his study wall, and his conference room is decorated with statues of German saints. Since his wife Armgard died four months ago, his 42-year-old daughter Christel has kept house for him, and she is the hostess at his frequent official dinners...
Last August, to curb blatant cigaret trading, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, then Deputy Military Governor, opened a legal barter center in Berlin's swank Dahlem district. Through one door, Americans swarmed with their cartons. Through another, Berliners brought their bric-a-brac, silver, china, cameras, radios, furs; the cigarets the Germans got in exchange bought food and clothing on Berlin's black market...
Kasha liked Berlin. Among the neighbors in suburban Dahlem's quiet Herrfurthstrasse, the personable little Airedale puppy soon made herself as popular as her mistress, pretty OMGUS Stenographer Betty Six. In normal times even Locksmith Walter Tietz might have petted the dog as she sniffed at the door of his shop in the Ladenbergstrasse...
...Berlin this week a school opened that was something to write home about. And a good many of its U.S. teachers did. Running from nursery to college age, the school was housed in a spic-&-span 35-room building in suburban Dahlem; it had fully equipped laboratories for physics, chemistry and biology; its textbooks were so new that many of them are not yet in use in U.S. schools; its teachers all had places to live. But it was not for Germans...