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Background: Born in Magdeburg (now in the East zone) March 27, 1901, son of an old-line Socialist bricklayer...
...bombed out during the war and dismantled by the Russians, it was rebuilt by the Germans, now makes cameras, binoculars and scientific instruments on a par with the West's. Machines approaching Western standards and below Western prices are coming from the more efficient nationalized factories, among them Magdeburg's Ernst Thalmann Heavy Machine Works, which the East Germans pieced together with infinite patience from scavenged old machinery and parts imported and smuggled from the West. In electronics, former subsidiaries of large West Germany corporations, notably Siemens and AEG, have caught up by copying West German products. Some...
Social Duties. The East German government's concern at this loss of brainpower has been reflected in public protests, Drominently noted in the state-controlled Dress. Parents' delegations and a variety of professional groups have cried discrimination. Recently the Magdeburg Party mouthpiece Volksstimme reported that district doctors had protested the "bureaucratic measures and narrow-mindedness" that barred their children from the universities. Hemmed the East Berlin weekly Sonntag: "Once in a while professors, doctors, artists, or engineers complain that their children are not, without exception, enrolled in the universities . . . But one should not hesitate to say that some...
...East and West rail headquarters keep in constant touch over train schedules, freight costs, tickets, border control. The West German shipping administration in Hamburg and the Soviet zone agency in Magdeburg deal with each other in keeping barge traffic flowing on the Elbe and the big Mittelland canal...
Since World War II, the very quality the Nazis detested most in Barlach's work -its expression of human striving and religious aspiration-has restored his work to the forefront of German 20th century art. In Germany today his war memorials in Magdeburg, Kiel and Hamburg, torn down by the Nazis, have been restored. Last week Barlach was being honored at Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum with his first comprehensive showing in the U.S., a traveling exhibition of 176 of his sculptures, drawings and prints...