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Mother Knew Best. Von Braun's origins had deep earthly roots in Prussian Junkerdom. A Von Braun fought the Mongols at Liegnitz in 1245, and the family's aristocracy was certified by the centuries. Wernher was born in Wirsitz, East Prussia (now part of Poland), the middle son of Baron Magnus von Braun, the local state administrator. Today Wernher's older brother, Sigismund, is counselor at the German embassy in London; his younger brother, Magnus, is program-control manager of the Chrysler Corp.'s new missile division in Detroit. Last week in a comfortable Oberaudorf apartment...
Those who got across the border threw their arms around the welcoming nurses, or cried with relief; two women fell to their knees to kiss the soil of freedom. A little boy hugged his teddybear: "Teddy's come all the way from Liegnitz. He and I are going to live with uncle." One little girl, given an orange, had never seen one before, thought it was a yellow potato. The refugees left behind watched silently, too exhausted for envy, too worried for vicarious happiness. When the reading of the British list was ended, only 55 refugees had crossed...
...Wiesbaden, Germany, a refugee from Silesia declared that she had been living next door to Adolf Hitler in Liegnitz- on President Roosevelt Strasse. (Skeptical military government officials said that it was Russia's problem.) "He has a triangular mustache now," said the woman, "and he grows sideburns ... He is living with a small, dark woman . . . He has formed a new party-the T.P.Z. I don't know what it stands...
...Berlin, guessed rightly that Marshal Ivan Konev would try to complete his envelopment of Breslau and widen his bridgeheads in the Steinau area. But they guessed wrong about Konev's power. When the blow came it was in huge force-enough to carry through Steinau and on to Liegnitz, 35 miles west of Breslau...
...same military academies-at Wahlstatt and Lichterfelde (oldtime Prussian West Point)-that turned out Germany's Hindenburg and Ludendorff. From the age of twelve, in school and at home in Breslau, he was shaped strictly for membership in his father's regiment, the crack Seventh Grenadiers of Liegnitz, Silesia, whose honorary chiefs were the Kaiser and the Tsar. Schoolmates recall him as a witty wisecracker, gay, with a talent for dramatics. But he stuck to soldiering faithfully, gained his lieutenancy in time for World War I. By bravery at Longwy and the Meuse, by luck at Verdun...