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Grace & Mercy. Martin Luther was born at Eisleben, Saxony, in 1483. His father was a tightfisted miner who had fought his way up to foundry owner. Old Hans sent his son to read law at the University of Erfurt, but Martin's sensitive mind became preoccupied with fear for his soul. A nameless, periodic and overwhelming despair seized him. It had been acute for about six months when the lightning struck...
...Three troop concentrations is Germany. For months, the U.S. and Britain have brought well substantiated charges that the Soviet Army is spurring production of war materials in Germany's Soviet zone. (Excerpts from a long bill of particulars: V-weapons are being made at Sömmerda near Erfurt, at Halle, at Nordhausen and in the South Harz; fuel for V-weapons at Leuna; aircraft at Gotha; machine-gun parts at Leipzig; tank chains at Plagwitz; Red Army uniforms at Plauen...
...Europe in 1373 wakes for the dead assumed an insane gaiety. While germs raged, one male dancer would feign death and a bevy of girls would hover around him, attempting to kiss him back to life. Such aberrations were widely spread. A band of German children danced hectically from Erfurt to Arnstadt (12 mi.), many of them dying on the way, the rest living on, completely shattered mentally. Another troupe danced on a bridge at Marburg, until the bridge collapsed and all were drowned...
...another peasant, attracted by the prospect of work in the mines there. Thrifty, he leased first one, then three small furnaces for smelting iron ore. He prospered. His son, Martin, went to the Mansfeld village school, later to St. George's School at Eisenach and the University of Erfurt, then Germany's most famed. To suggest that Martin Luther was ignorant would be absurd, but to deny that he was born of and raised by and among simple peasants in lowly surroundings would be as absurd as denying that Jesus was the son of a village carpenter, that...
Near Forchheim, Germany, a pilot and two passengers were killed when the great Lufthansa's regular Erfurt-Munich plane hit the earth...