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...uses as a measuring-rod a man he knows only by a card in a file, Adam Lorenz, an anti-Nazi journalist who had stood up to Hitler before & after 1933. From Lorenz' father, wife and friends, Cooper learns that Lorenz too had to fight the unheroic in himself. He had become a hero, a concentration-camp veteran, because he had been afraid not to be one. Cooper's search for Lorenz, against orders from his superiors, becomes the major action of the book. "If I've come this far . . . it's because...
When Cooper finds Lorenz, he discovers that the Gestapo had ways of cracking even heroes, that those once tortured seldom successfully faced a second dose. Said one Gestapo victim, "indicating the gaudy Christ-on-the-Cross on the wall behind him, 'I'll wager that even He would not have undertaken it a second time. Not for anybody...
When the Russians entered Vienna last year, a party of Red Army surgeons stomped into the Hospital for Accidents. "Where is Bohler?" they demanded. "We want the nail." Dr. Lorenz Bohler, one of the best orthopedic surgeons in Europe was away-in a French prison camp. But the Russians got "the nail." By last week most of the rest of Europe had it too. The nail,* which Austrian Surgeon Bohler had used with wide success, is a remarkable device for mending broken bones, especially broken thighbones...
...Lorenz Benedikt Kochler...
Died. Dr. Adolf Lorenz, 91, Viennese orthopedic specialist whose well-publicized knifeless cures of crippled kings and commoners earned him world fame; in Vienna...