Word: lubeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the R.A.F. blitzed Lubeck last April, they destroyed a literary landmark, the ancestral home of emigre Novelist Thomas Mann. The Mann mansion was an 18th-Century rococo building popularly known as the Buddenbrookshaus after Mann's two-volume first novel, Buddenbrooks-a genealogical account of the rise & fall of a middle-class German family engaged in the Lubeck grain & feed trade...
Britain's bombing of Lubeck, its blasting of Rostock, its raids last, week on Kiel and Trondheim, its repeated daytime raids on Occupied France were not like the raids which the R.A.F. had made intermittently and hit-or-missly for two years. This was the Business. It differed in technique and, above all, it differed in scale from all British bombing that went before. It compared with Hitler's blitz on Britain in the fall of 1940 -only it was bigger...
Compositions by Matthias Monn, Rosenmuller, Schiassi, Tunder, and Vincent Lubeck are on the program...