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...Singing groups are countless in Liverpool, and the Beatles did not just come in off a street corner to fame, as happens so frequently in the U.S. They developed their coordinated skill in a long line of one-night stands. They actually went off to the beer cellars of Hamburg to become fully professional. When they recorded Love Me Do in 1962, they began their giddy spiral to fame...
...picking Staack for its Old Testament lecture series over 20 other candidates, the National Council chose a well-qualified scholar with some hard experience in secular life as well. Staack studied at the universities of Berlin and Hamburg, was ordained a minister of the Hitler-hating Confessing Church in 1939. As it did with many other rebellious Lutheran pastors, the Nazi government drafted Staack for army service in 1939; he was wounded five times in eastern-front combat and spent ten months in Russian and British prison camps. He came to the U.S. in 1949 as a graduate fellow...
Confronted by the mountain of evidence, the accused pleaded the familiar defense that they were only "little men" who followed orders. One of the major defendants, Robert Mulka, 68, a prosperous Hamburg importer who was assistant commandant of Auschwitz, declared that he "knew nothing, saw nothing, heard nothing" about mass extermination. Why, swore Mulka, he had never even set foot inside the vast prisoners' compound...
York Daily News), LORD, GIVE US PEACE (Hamburg Bild-Zeitung), PEACE AND LOVE (London Daily Express). In three days, the New York Times lavished 73 columns on the story, quoted Scripture (John: 17:20), covered everything from the space Paul rated in the Moscow press (150 words) to the blessing he bestowed on his air escort, and got JESUS in a five-column Page One headline...
...Hamburg never gives up. A Schauspielhaus official sighed perplexedly and said: "Perhaps we should encourage Durrell to write a comedy next time...