Word: nigsberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life, Käthe Kollwitz could remember her parents' bewilderment when, as a young girl in the East Prussian city of Königsberg, she first began to draw. They were perfectly willing to encourage her talent, but her choice of subjects was certainly unsettling. "After all," they would say, "life has its bright sides, too. Why do you show only the darkest?" As Käthe Kollwitz wrote many years later, "I had no answer. I simply wasn't moved by anything else...
...minor railroad official, Schröder was perennial head of his class and still, say his foes, has the star pupil's condescending manner. From Königsberg University, Law Student Schröder went to the University of Edinburgh, finished his studies with a doctorate from Cologne. He says he quit the Nazi Party in 1941, when he married a part-Jewish woman. After the war, in which he served as an enlisted infantryman on the Russian front, Schröder joined the Christian Democrats, at Adenauer's urging campaigned in 1949 for the Düsseldorf...