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...Pomerania, he played in Labor Service bands, he served in the army, and finally returned to the Jesuits. After Germany's defeat, he preached to refugees from the Eastern zone and former soldiers. But he yearned for a larger challenge. In 1949, in a circus tent in Essen, he began a "crusade for ethical revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jesuit Crusader | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...young Communist rioter killed last year in Essen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Red Posters | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...World War II, Allied bombers knocked out more than 60% of Krupp's Essen plants and equipment, and the work begun by bombers was carried on by the victorious governments. Russia grabbed more than 130,000 tons of valuable Krupp machinery. Britain carted away 150,000 tons of valuable scrap, systematically dismantled half of the remaining Krupp buildings. Krupp himself was tried at NÜrnberg, and sentenced to twelve years in prison. (Six years later, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy commuted the sentence to the time already served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rebirth at Essen | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Ruhr miners' homes were destroyed during the war. Today one in every ten miners is forced to leave his family in some other part of Germany, while he lives in a barn or an old air-raid shelter near the pits. At the Zollverein mine, near Essen, 1,500 homeless miners live in bleak, clapboard cabins sprawling in the shadow of the pithead. The turnover among them is immense. "They don't budge in winter," said a mine official. "But when the spring comes round, you see a look in their eye, and one day they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Coal Is the Tyrant | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...people of western Germany have turned a big corner. Six months ago, stagnation was still everywhere; today, from the Elbe to the Rhine, everything is in motion. Ponderous blocks of new building bulk cleanly amid the jagged skylines. In Hamburg, Frankfurt and Essen, brick red factory construction and flashy white housing projects chase the gloom of rubble grey. The ruins no longer depress, but act as a stimulant to German energy. A Hamburg shipping magnate curtly told me why: "If I don't get something done, I'll go crazy. That's sure. A war may take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: GERMANY: UP FROM THE ASHES | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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