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...treasure, 2,000 feet underground in a German salt mine. After being on show for a month in Washington, the 202 paintings will be returned to Germany-but not to Berlin, for fear that the Russians might grab them, as they grabbed the treasures of the Zwinger in Dresden. Instead, they will probably go to Wiesbaden and Munich, in the U.S. zone...
Soviet officers were showing U.S. correspondents through Germany's Russian zone. Proudly they pointed out the war-battered Zwinger in Dresden. Plans were well under way, they boasted, for restoring the museum. But where were all the paintings listed in the catalogue...
...famed boys' choir of the Dresden Kreuzkirche in the Russian zone was scheduled to sing songs of all nations. Although all four occupying powers had approved the choir's appearance, a German employee of the American Information Control Division, on his own authority, notified the Russians that the choir would have to be banned. The choir's conductor, he said, had not yet been de-Nazified...
There were only eleven students; if they could find a twelfth, they could buy their dancing lessons cheaper. They descended on a pint-sized teen-ager backstage in a Dresden theater who had hopes of becoming a stage designer. How would he like to study under Dancer Mary Wigman, the new rage of Europe? He was willing: Before long, Harald Kreutzberg was the prize...
...elegant oak-paneled office had paintings and a Persian rug. In it sat a German official of the Soviet zone, and I congratulated him on the handsomest surroundings I had seen in ruined Dresden...