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...days later, the Mengeles divulged a few more details. Dieter, the nephew of the Auschwitz doctor and one of the partners in the Mengele company, explained that the family had kept silent on the case for so many years in order to protect Josef's friends. The same day, Rolf handed over, free of charge, photographic and written material on Mengele, after his escape from Germany, to the weekly magazine Bunte Illustrierte. The magazine's current issue carries the first installment of an article in which Rolf explains that while he had ideological differences with his father, he sympathized with...
...expressed "profound sympathy" to concentration- camp victims and their families. A few days later Rolf, with the family's consent, turned over to the West German magazine Bunte a batch of photographs and documents said to depict his father's 36 years on the run. At the same time, Dieter Mengele, one of Josef's nephews, told an Augsburg newspaper that the family had kept silent because "we did not want to risk the necks" of people linked to the hunted...
Last week in a brightly lit room at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., the first production model of the Cray-2 gurgled and glowed, and a nearby printer spewed out a string of characters: s905. B D/U WO/F 06/04 15:24:22 16a. Software Manager Dieter Fuss stared at the message and interpreted it for the assembled Livermore technicians and executives: "It just came alive and said, 'I'm ready...
...remember those exciting early days of the U.S. space program? Dieter Kolff and his fellow scientists leading America's effort to catch up with the Soviets and put a man into orbit. Astronaut John Pope making his spectacular walk in space. And, of course, that historic Apollo landing on the dark side of the moon and its terrifying brush with disaster...
Would that the opening night's performance had been worthy of both the moment and the surroundings. Instead, it was prosaically conducted by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and, with the exception of Bass-Baritone Theo Adam's noble Hermit, provincially sung by an all East European cast. The Freischutz production further suffered from Joachim Herz's relentlessly proletarian staging. The first great German romantic opera and a major influence on Wagner, Freischutz is the story of a forester, Max, who almost falls into the devil's clutches trying to regain his lost marksmanship and win the hand of his beloved Agathe...