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...West German university city of Freiburg (pop. 110,000) was a bad place for a child in late 1945. Bombs and artillery shells had cratered its streets, shattered its industry (mainly textiles and precision instruments), gutted its homes. Children roamed the rubble in wolf packs, raiding homes, stealing food and clothing for the black market. By 1947 Freiburg had a shockingly high juvenile-delinquency rate: scrawny, defiant boys, aged 12 to 18, were being brought before Freiburg's courts in batches of dozens at a time, sentenced and packed off to prison. Freiburg's citizens just shook their...
Monuments & Dancing. Today, Freiburg's cops can look forward to quiet evenings. Judge Härringer's boys' town now has 300 members, most of them on probation for petty theft. They proudly call themselves "the Härringer Boys," have a spacious new civic center donated by the city. Instead of roaming aimlessly, the boys are split into groups of 15, are led by young men from Freiburg's Youth Office and university to visit historical monuments, factories and schools. Evenings, they enjoy table-tennis tournaments, musicals and dances with girls from the university...
Last week, in the sleepy Bavarian town of Freiburg, the city fathers unveiled a three-foot marble statue of a drake, neck arched to the sky and bill at full quack...
They had assembled to honor a nameless drake, born in Freiburg some time during World War II, which showed an uncanny sensitivity to high-flying aircraft engines...
...many occasions, long before the sirens sounded, the drake gave warning of an air raid, flapping its wings and quacking. On Nov. 27, 1944 the vigilant Freiburg drake began cackling and would not stop. Freiburgers dived for their cellars although no warning had been given, and they got there just in time. A surprise Allied attack laid the city (pop. 109,822) in ruins. The drake's carcass was found beside a bomb crater...