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...Marienkirche, in the eastern sector of Berlin, is a grave, 13th century church with the mien of a sanctuary and the promise of a mighty fortress. It stands behind the Iron Curtain of Christendom's enemy, and there are signs of struggle within and around it. Some of the choir boys who will sing its 16th century chorales in this troubled Eastertide wear the bright blue shirts of the Freie Deutsche Ju-gend, East Germany's Communist youth group. Last February, one of its clergy, Pastor Reinhold George, was arrested by Red security police a few yards from...
Confident Faith. The great lesson which German Protestants have learned, under Otto Dibelius' pastorship, is that they can no longer take their church and their faith for granted. The Lutheran fortress is under sharp attack. As Otto Dibelius prepares to mount the pulpit in the Marienkirche for his Easter-Sunday service, he can ponder the latest news of the Red assault on religion in East Germany. In Chemnitz last week, Pastor Werner Gestrich was sentenced by a people's court to twelve years at hard labor for anti-state "utterances." In Martin Luther's Saxony, Communist papers...
...commercial airline. The colonel last year sold his converted B-17 Flying Fortress in the canny belief it had worn out, had his judgment confirmed when it crashed shortly afterward...
...Colditz Story, by P. R. Reid. Prisoners v. prisonkeepers, and how a handful of Allied officers proved that the formidable Nazi fortress of Colditz was not escape-proof after all (TIME...
...Colditz Story, by P. R. Reid. Prisoners v. prisonkeepers, and how a handful of Allied officers proved the formidable Nazi fortress of Colditz not escape-proof after all (TIME...