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...them torn down before Hitler arrived and refused to greet him. That abruptly ended his career as mayor, and he was classified as "politically unreliable." He spent the next twelve years alternately in prison or reading and tending his roses in the hillside villa he built at RhÖndorf. There, near war's end, he was nearly hit by an American shell as he watched the advancing U.S. Army cross the Rhine...
...funeral obsequies themselves were planned to take careful note of the detailed habits and personal preferences of der Alte. Through the streets of the village of RhÖndorf, where he had so often walked, rolled his caisson, passing the white Catholic church in which he had worshiped, crossing his beloved Rhine on a ferry beneath the brooding Drachenfels. It proceeded over the exact route through Bonn that Adenauer had always taken on his way to the Bundestag. There, on the very spot where for 14 years as Chancellor Adenauer had presided over Cabinet meetings, the simple brown oak coffin...
Died. Konrad Adenauer, 91, the man who made a new Germany; of influenza and bronchitis; in RhÖndorf, West Germany (see THE WORLD...
...democrat of 70, unfazed by the horrors of defeat (he had witnessed the decline of both Bismarck and the Kaiser). When the Gestapo released him during the Götterdämmerung of the Allied advance, Adenauer trekked circuitously through the flooded Rhineland to his home at Rhöndorf, then sat out a vicious artillery duel between U.S. troops at the Remagen bridgehead and Wehrmacht gunners who were dug in directly behind his house. Walking in his garden one Sunday, Adenauer came under fire. "About 300 yards away, I saw a shell hurtling towards me," he writes. "I could...
...uproar in Bonn last week sounded little like the usual well-oiled functioning of the Federal Republic of Germany. All the factions in Bonn seemed to want weary Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 86, to cross the Rhine to his rose gardens in Rhöndorf, and stay there. At week's end der Alte at last agreed to do so-in about a year...