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Otto Dix is a home-loving father of three, a cafe frequenter who hates to talk war. He saves part of his venom for his frequent studies of circuses, trollops, murders, pregnancies. So pungent was his art that Adolf Hitler removed him last year from a lucrative professorship in Dresden's Kunst Akademie. He has, how ever, painted many a kindly portrait of children, one of which is owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller...
Last to leave the ship were Captain Moeller and the wireless operator. Early next morning the Dresden, mortally wounded by jagged Norwegian rocks, rolled over and sank, leaving only a few feet of metal above the surface. Pilot Jacobsen heaped ashes on his own head...
...Stavanger, Norway the Dresden picked up two pilots and started nosing through a light mist along the shore. They nosed a little too close. Twice in the course of the day the Dresden ran aground but was floated off under her own power. Toward evening the tired, windburned but still hungry junketers trooped down into the dining room. On the shore of Karmö Island Pilot Jacobsen's family stood expectantly in line waiting for papa to bring the Dresden past. That he did, so close that his children could see him waving to them from the bridge beside...
Suddenly amid a loud crunching of steel on stone, the Dresden quivered from stem to stern. Down in the dining saloon waiters plunged head first into their platters. Decks tilted crazily while frightened Germans ran screaming from rail to rail. In a few minutes the Dresden's first S. O. S. was picked up by the coastal steamers King Harald and Crown Princess Martha, and the French navy despatch boat Ardent. The giant British battleship Rodney, visiting Stavanger, also heard the call but was told that no further assistance was necessary...
...take sole responsibility for the Dresden disaster," said he. "The waters of the Karmsund are difficult to navigate, but I have piloted here for more than 30 years. . . . The disaster was caused by greater drifting than I estimated. Although I have nothing with which to pay the material damage, the moral responsibility is heavy enough...