Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than most Germans, lively, blue-eyed Inge Scholl has reason to remember the Nazis with horror. Her brother 'Hans and her sister Sophie, medical students at the University of Munich, had joined the underground against Hitler, were arrested by the Gestapo and publicly beheaded. Inge vowed to carry on their work. In the autumn of 1945, under Allied occupation, she found...
Last week Munich saw the first comprehensive show of new German art since the war. Held in Hitler's onetime headquarters, the massive FÜhrerbauhaus, it contained not a single blond Balder, buxom BrÜnnhilde or veiled Valhalla of the sort Hitler had liked to see. There were few still lifes or portraits either, and surprisingly few bitter or tragic pictures such as George Grosz and Kathe Kollwitz had made between wars. Instead of all that, the best young German painters were doing abstractions, by the acre...
Books in the social sciences donated to the drive go to the American Institute of the University of Munich, another recently established center of American studies. Both the Seminar and the American Institute are promising signs in European education, for they recognize the importance of understanding American society and its institutions. You can contribute to their success in this drive...
Clothing and books for the PBH drives will be collected simultaneously. The clothing will go to the Salzburg Seminar and the Friends Service Committee, and the books to the universities of Munich and Rangoon. These drives will close Thursday...
This action came is response to an appeal from the University of Rangoon, which needs scientific texts. Previously only the University of Munich was to receive books, but since Munich's needs are in humanities and social sciences, the two universities will share the collected books according to need...