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Skorzeny surrendered to U.S. troops at Salzburg, in 1945. Since then, he had been in prison, first at Dachau, then at Darmstadt. His war-crimes trial, on charges of torturing U.S. prisoners, resulted in acquittal; but he was held in custody because a denazification court had not yet gotten around to his case. Last week he escaped. Somewhere in Germany, Otto Skorzeny had gone underground...
...Beautiful. This shirtless "she" was Doris Brigitte von Knobloch, a Darmstadt dental assistant. Fraülein von Knobloch was one of the hundreds of thousands of Europe's little people whose lives have been disrupted by war and thwarted by frontiers. One day during World War II, she had met Rolf Berndt on a Berlin street corner. Gitte was then a police clerk and Rolf a trusty from Sachsenhausen internment camp. "He looked so humiliated in his prison uniform," she explained, "that I said a nice word. He looked so beautiful when he answered, I guess I fell...
Germany had reaped the whirlwind: Cologne Cathedral, nicked and shaken, stood like a mother without children, in the dead city. Dresden's baroque beauty lay shattered from an aerial bombardment in the last weeks of the war. It was as though such medieval beauties as Darmstadt, Niirnberg and Hildesheim, with its steep-gabled Butchers' Guildhouse, had never been...
Everywhere they saw young Germans, eager to rebuild, struggling against a mountain of wreckage, physical and spiritual, left by the Nazis. At the partially rebuilt Technische Hochschule at Darmstadt, students took lecture notes on their knees because there were no desks; many spent their vacations last summer recovering laboratory equipment from the rubble. Nazi book-burnings and Allied bombs had combined to decimate the textbook supply; at Frankfurt alone, half a million books were lost during raids. The circulating library of the University of Munich is in one small basement room...
Died. Count Hermann Keyserling, 65, German philosopher-critic (The Travel Diary of a Philosopher), founder of the Darmstadt "School of Wisdom"; in Innsbruck, Austria. The Nazis hated the bearded mystic for his anti-nationalism, in 1942 declared him "unworthy to represent the German spirit"; U.S. lecture audiences of the '20s loved him despite his tart depictions of the U.S. as a humorless, soulless, overly intellectual matriarchate...