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...Der Rote Baron, a film opening this week in German cinemas, traces the wartime career of von Richthofen, his obsession with combat, his lionization by the Kaiser in Berlin as the poster child of the German war effort, and then his supposed love affair with a battlefield nurse who opened his eyes to the harsh realities...
...fact that a country that has viewed war with deep suspicion for the past half century is now beginning to send men into combat in faraway lands. "This would not have been possible ten years ago," says Joachin Castan, author of the 2007 biography of the flying ace, Der Rote Baron. "It is now possible to ask the question in Germany, 'Can there be a war hero?'" (The film was shot in English and will probably be released outside of Germany sometime in the next year...
...When it has dealt with the subject of war on the big screen, postwar Germany has tended to view it from the dark side. Movies such as Das Boot (1981), 2004's Der Untergang (The Downfall) and Sophie Scholl (2005) explored the experience through an unwaveringly critical lens. Even the upcoming Valkyrie, a Tom Cruise movie about a German officer who tried to kill Hitler, focuses mainly on the horrors of war. Der Rote Baron, by contrast, portrays its combatant hero in a positive light. "It's a remarkable movie," the Baron's nephew, Manfred von Richthofen, told Die Welt...
...department, the concentration’s annual budget includes provisions for these graduate excursions. “It really covers travel, hotels, local travel, and meals...The idea is that funding should not be an obstacle that would keep students from participating,” says Hugo van der Velden, a professor of HAA, who plans to take his fifth graduate trip this year. Unfortunately, though, opportunities have traditionally been limited for Harvard HAA undergraduate concentrators, unless they were willing to enroll in a graduate-level course, like Schlozman. But currently, thanks to a private donation, a new initiative targeted...
...historical city, from what history had to teach… She thought the historical city should be studied to learn how it works,” says Heynen. In opposition to the Bauhaus program of scientific construction and planning, initiated by Gropius and perpetuated by architects like Mies van der Rohe, “She was convinced that science and technology alone couldn’t build a city.”Heynen says that she’s currently working on how “to find an eloquent position of how to describe...