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...Eleven voices and plenty of topics. Pleasant and not so pleasant memories of school days. Personal achievements and setbacks. National guilt. Pride in a democracy and in the European family. And finally, astonishment at something not expected in their lifetime: impending unification. "We are part of the rubble generation," says Hartmut Ruge, managing editor of the daily Recklinghauser Zeitung. "A generation of moral disorientation and guilt. Now there is normality...
...Eleven voices out of a class of 20 hardly amount to a representative sample: after all, the class of '56 included no women -- though Hittorf is now coeducational -- and, by the standards of the '50s, its members belonged to an educational elite. But their opinions -- serious, measured -- and their lives -- steady, prosperous -- do reflect the country they helped shape and that in turn shaped them. Raised in rubble, they went on to bridge and rebuild: youngsters touched by the fury of World War II; adolescents molded by the struggle out of the ruins; adults rewarded with stability, their lives dominated...
...Bronson, Mich., and later graduated from the University of Michigan. Prager joined TIME in 1965 as a correspondent in the Hong Kong bureau and has worked in Vietnam, New York City, San Francisco, Beirut and Madrid. He oversaw the Germany issue and, in a story based on conversations with eleven former classmates, looked at how Germans of his generation have fared. "They have no heroes," he says, "but they are proud that their country has become a mature democracy so firmly embedded in an integrated Europe...
...lovely stucco house at Am Iderfenngraben 23 looks decidedly out of place. The wrought-iron gate is freshly painted; the clay roof shingles gleam in the afternoon sun. Rudolf Musch, a construction engineer, has spent most of his savings renovating the 1920s home since his family moved in eleven years ago. But the Musches, who pay $92 a month in rent for their 1,658-sq.-ft. space, may soon find themselves on the street. Hilmar Schneider, the owner of the house, who left the East in 1961 and lives in Kiel, wants to reclaim his home -- and perhaps sell...
...time was the 1980s, the accused Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen, head of a prominent chemical firm, and the dictator Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. "You knowingly delivered to Libya an installation suitable for the production of poison-gas weapons," said an angry Judge Jurgen Henninger at the end of the eleven-day trial in Mannheim...