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...author, who has written books on the Luftwaffe and the firebombing of Dresden, reveals strange priorities of indignation. "The war in the air," he writes, "reached a climax in prenuclear barbarism as over 40,000 civilians were burned, blasted, or poisoned to death in Hamburg." Irving does not raise his voice in quite that way when confronting the systematic liquidation of 6 million European Jews...
...Merseburg, Germany, Klaus took up the violin at the age of eight; by 22 he was concertmaster at the municipal theater in Halle. When a nerve disorder damaged a finger of the left hand several years later, he turned to conducting. At 32 he became music director of the Dresden Opera. There were, later on, tours of the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia and other Eastern bloc countries. But recalls Tennstedt: "For any musician, travel was restricted, and there were so few possibilities for growth. Modern music from the West was off limits. East Germany has many composers, but very few good ones...
...gradual appearance of dark outlines on the milky surface of my plate, forming the first photographic image I had taken. I became a kind of photo-amateur, from time to time taking pictures of my friends or my relatives, I was not very good and during my studies in Dresden I photographed little...
...studied engineering in Dresden. How did photography become your career...
Your pictures told the story: the shaved heads, "beast barracks," the cruel faces of the plebes in formation, and the frightened clods being hazed or braced. Militarism, be it American or Prussian, is a stupid, vicious anachronism. Honor code? What honor is there in Balaclava, the Somme, Belsen, Dresden, Hiroshima...