Word: leipzigers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leipzig this week," said an old German toymaker, "looks like Nürnberg when the Nazi rallies were held there-except that now the flags are red instead of red and black...
...Soviet masters of Eastern Germany were staging their own version of the 700-year-old Leipzig Fair. For one week, newsmen and prospective buyers from the West were allowed to enter the Russian-run forbidden land to look at 7,500 exhibits of Red Europe's industrial and agricultural products. Everywhere they went, their eyes met yard upon yard of red banners bearing quotes from Stalin...
...decided it would be wisest to get away from Harwell. His father, a 75-year-old ex-Protestant minister, and pacifist, furnished a convenient pretext: he was making plans to move from his home in West Germany to the Russian zone, where he had been offered a professorship at Leipzig University. Fuchs reported his father's Red taint to the authorities at Harwell. It is not clear why he did so. He may have hoped that he would be quietly dismissed. Said Fuchs: "I did not have the courage to fight it out for myself . . ." But his superiors were...
...depressing," he said. "It makes you so suspicious you don't know whether to trust your own staff members." From Frankfurt came word of Klaus Fuchs's father. The old pacifist, now 75, had left two weeks ago to become professor of theology at the University of Leipzig in the Russian zone of Germany...
...Great Pain." He had gotten invitations to other bicentennial Bach festivals in Europe and the U.S. Among them: bids to play in Strasbourg with the great Bach organist, Albert Schweitzer, and in Leipzig's venerable Thomas-Kirche, where Bach himself had been cantor. He had turned them all down, although "It gave me great pain to refuse...