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Last week the R. A. F. made good a British promise to exhibit at Leipzig's big 1940 industrial fair, by unloading bombs on the Leipzig railroad station. Junkers aircraft are made at Leipzig, also at Bern-burg and Dessau, which the R. A. F. duly visited. At Berlin, the first important industrial target hit was the Siemens-Schuckert electrical works...
...drive turned westward from below Sedan and headed for the English Channel, the British Isles waited for the blow that was inevitable. Their only countermeasure last week begun in advance was to try to devastate the Ruhr munitions works, to bomb at long range German aircraft production centres at Dessau, Rostock, Oranienburg, Augsburg, Rangsdorf, Johan-nisthal, Gotha, Schonefeld, Halle, Leipzig. Factories in those places were believed to be supplying Germany with 50 warplanes and 90 motors a day. Hopefully the British declared that their own defenses could inflict 40% losses (coming & going) on Nazi bombers who attack them at home...
...Bauhaus had as its object the training of a new type of designer, combining imaginative design and technical proficiency. First located at Weimar, and later at Dessau, the school trained hundreds of students, and had a particularly important effect on the development of modern architecture...
...laws mobilized 80,000,000 Germans behind the Army. In a series of drastic decrees, death by hanging was ordered for saboteurs, pillagers, arsonists, profiteers and loafers. Before officials could get the gallows up, one Johann Heinin was shot in Dessau for sabotage and in Stammheim Herman Weisser was beheaded for stealing shell parts. Income taxes were upped by 50%, taxes on beer and tobacco by 20%. The tax on radios was made practically confiscatory and the death penalty ordered for those caught listening to foreign broadcasts. Public dancing was prohibited as incompatible with the spirit of the times...
...industrial design. Examples: tubular and wood furniture, frosted glass and metal lamps, pottery and other useful goods made in the '20s, which no U. S. manufacturers yet surpass; advanced photography done by or under the direction of Bauhaus Instructor Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy; the second Bauhaus building at Dessau by Founder-Director Walter Gropius, called by the Museum's Director Alfred Barr Jr. "architecturally the most important structure of its decade...