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...evolution of societies. Recent history suggests that industrialization and economic progress are compatible with liberty or tyranny, and do not necessarily override cultural or political differences between nations. Witness, for example, parliamentary Britain and autocratic Germany at the turn of the century, or Detroit in the Roosevelt era and Essen under Hitler. The postwar economic progress of Japan has undoubtedly contributed to the viability of its democratic political system; but East Germany, the most technologically advanced of any Eastern European nation, has achieved economic success under the most rigid and doctrinaire of Communist tyrannies...
This summer, 21 of the Polish frescoes, together with carvings and graffiti from Faras, are being shown for the first time in Western Europe at West Germany's Villa Hügel in Essen. They have caused something of a sensation in artistic circles. Says Professor Kurt Bittel, head of the West German Archaeological Institute: "The miracle of Faras is a triple one: that these works were found, that they could be preserved, and that they existed...
...crowds hooted him down, because of the suspicion that his movement was being subverted by Communists. In 1958, just as the West German Socialists were in the process of dropping their Marxist dogma in order to become a more broadly based party, Heinemann joined up. Winning a seat from Essen in the Bundestag, he concentrated on social issues...
Efficiency and Eccentricity. Though the Krupp family goes back to the 16th century, its modern mold was cast about 150 years ago by Alfred Krupp (great-grandfather of the modern-day Alfried) who, at 14, inherited a nearly bankrupt little ironworks in Essen. By 1851, he had produced the world's largest cast-steel ingot, as well as the first seamless railway wheels, and was soon building a fortune out of the Industrial Revolution and the U.S. railway boom...
...still a student in 1931, and took over from his senescent father in 1943. During the war, he showed no qualms about confiscating plants in occupied lands, impressing 100,000 slave laborers and opening production plants near concentration camps to have a ready supply of labor. At Buschmannshof, near Essen, a special Krupp camp was built to house the offspring of slave workers from the east; there were no known survivors, and today, hundreds of numbered gravestones are the children's only memorial...