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...There is a kind of greatness in Marcks's life. The Nazis hounded him. exhibited his work as "de generate," then melted much of it down for armaments. During World War II, an Allied bomb destroyed his Berlin studio and all it contained. He started over again in Mecklenburg, but after a year the Russians arrived, broke into his new studio and smashed everything they, found. His eldest son was killed at the front. Through all this he never wavered in his reverence for life nor in his dedication...
...West German in five is a refugee. To politicians in a campaign year, the refugee vote is an irresistible temptation to demagoguery. There are more than 10 million refugees, expelled from Communist Eastern Europe in three great waves. The advancing Red army chased 650,000 from East Prussia and Mecklenburg; most of them settled in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, which has become known as the "poorhouse of Germany." Next came the 8,000,000 Volksdeutsche (German ethnic groups) expelled from Eastern Europe. The last wave started when two million hungry East Germans began fleeing across the border...
East Germany's Communist government decided to dissolve these provinces: Brandenburg, once the domain of the Margrave of Brandenburg for whom Johann Sebastian Bach composed his six famous concertos: Saxony, birthplace of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire; Mecklenburg, once obedient to the Duke of Saxony; Saxony-Anhalt, which produced Martin Luther and George Frederick Handel; Thuringia, a center of Luther's Reformation...
About 30 airfields in Soviet Germany are in active use, but many others are kept in first-rate condition the year round. Most of the fields are distributed in three thick clusters-one to the north, in Mecklenburg, one ringing Berlin, and the third in the south, in the triangle formed by Dessau, Altenburg and Cottbus. The major fields in Mecklenburg are at Peene-münde and Rechlin-Lärz. Some 200 fighters, a few reconnaissance planes and light bombers are based at Peenemünde, along with 3,000 service troops and 600 airmen, most of them...
Britain's King George III once let his heavy Teutonic eyes wander sheeplike in the direction of a lovely, unpredictable minx named Lady Sarah Lennox. For political reasons he could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later, when George's younger brothers Gloucester and Cumberland married their own lights-of-love without so much as a by-your-leave, George was furious and had Parliament pass the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. It has provided ever since that George's descendants may not marry without...