Word: dresden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heckel in his 20s was a bursting bomb. With Kirchner and Schmidt-Rottluff, he worked in a studio that had once been a cobbler's shop in the working-class district of Dresden. Since the three young artists were in revolt against convention, including the hiring of professional models, they painted their own girl friends in the nude; at any one time three or four of these young ladies might be milling in happy nakedness around the kerosene stove, on which a pot of coffee was always steaming. The artists worked at any hour of the day or night...
...robed judges at Karlsruhe was stocky Hans Clemens, 61, who peered with interest at an exhibit table covered with the tools of his trade: cameras, tape recorders, microscopes, radios, films and suitcases with secret compartments. As he told it, Clemens had been a pianist as a youth in Dresden, but changed keys and became a Nazi police official in 1933. He headed the Dresden office of the dreaded SS security service. During World War II he commanded an execution squad in Italy that killed 330 hostages and for his savagery won the title "The Tiger of Como...
...suggested that he get a job with the Gehlen organization. It proved easy. The motive he gave for becoming a double agent for the Reds seemed like an old propaganda broadcast. "I hate Americans like the plague," he said in court, recalling that after American air raids on Dresden he had sworn, "I shall repay them doubly and triply...
...city of Dresden, teeming with war prisoners and refugees, was of little military importance. It was so unlikely a target that its antiaircraft had been dismantled. Yet on the night of Feb. 13, 1945, three months before the war was to end, Allied bombers raided the city, demolishing eleven square miles of magnificent buildings and killing some 150,000 people, far more than the total number who died in either atomic raid on Japan and almost three times the number killed in all the German attacks on Britain...
...Dresden was only one of 70 German cities that were at least 50% destroyed by the so-called "strategic" bombing raids of the R.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. These raids were intended to force Germany to surrender by destroying civilian morale. But Hans Rumpf, a brigadier general who headed German civil defense during the war, is the latest of a number of military analysts to conclude that the raids did nothing to shorten the war and unnecessarily took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, largely women and children. Strategic bombing, British Military Historian Liddell Hart has written, was the "most...