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...father, a staunch Catholic, kept a butcher shop in the Schwabing sector of Munich in the years Naziism got started there. More than once, young Franz Josef wrapped cold cuts for a poultry-breeding patron named Heinrich Himmler. Across from the butcher shop at No. 49 Schelling-strasse, Heinrich Hoffman kept a photographic shop where a frequent visitor was a pale, mustached man named Adolf Hitler. One day when Butcher Strauss caught his son-aged five-handing out pamphlets that some brown shirt had given him, he gave the boy a thrashing right there in the Schellingstrasse. "That," says Franz...
Local Gods. The Schwabing sector was a kind of Munich equivalent of Paris' Latin Quarter. Munich's finest university was near by, abstract painters mingled with budding ballerinas, and professors were the local gods. Young Franz Josef might have gone right on cutting Weiss-null and Leberkds all his life if the parish priest had not observed how swiftly the lad caught the meaning of his Latin prayers and helped get him a scholarship at the crack Maximilian Gymnasium...
...entered a 75-mile cross-country bike race, and won it, earning himself the title of "South German Road Champion." Resisting pressure to join the Nazis, he enrolled himself and his new motorcycle in the innocuous National Socialist Motorized Corps, which was little more than a sports club. At Munich University, he ranked at the top in all examinations, seemed destined for teaching. Even after he was drafted in 1939 and assigned to an antiaircraft unit, he was forever getting leave to take more exams. His academic hopes were smashed when the war wrecked Germany, and even the manuscript...
...Kirchner had a nervous breakdown and was found to be suffering from tuberculosis. From then on, his life became a battle against alcohol, dope, and, in his last years, the Nazis. In 1937 the Nazis removed 639 of his works from German museums; 32 were displayed in the notorious Munich exhibit of "degenerate art." Less than a year later, at the age of 58, Kirchner ended his life by shooting himself...
...possibly wreck it eventually. After the Korean War, when the U.S. satisfied itself with a stalemate armistice, Georges Bidault insisted on victory in Indochina. "Resistance," or"immobilisme" was again the theme in dealings with Morocco and Tunisia, a policy which Aron explains by recalling French fears of another Munich or Vichy. The same fears have prevented the transfer of the rest of the empire, Algeria, into nationalist hands...