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...From left: Prince Nikolaus; Princess Nora Elisabeth; Crown Prince Johannes Adam; Princess Gina (seated); Prince Franz Josef II; Prince Philipp Erasmus...
...Germany's greatest painter? Half a century ago, the title would have been disputed among Albrecht Diirer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger. Now Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born head of the History of Art Department at London University's Birkbeck College, unhesitatingly comes out for the 16th century Gothic master whom critics have long called Matthias Griinewald...
Died. Count Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, 77, wily, spike-bearded German sea raider whose auxiliary cruiser Moewe (Seagull), disguised as a cargo ship, twice ran the British blockade, destroyed an unequaled 50 vessels between 1915 and 1917; of a heart attack; in Rosenheim. Germany...
When Penguin first started the project six years ago, it picked as its editor Nikolaus Pevsner, Slade professor of fine art at Cambridge, and gave him a budget of $700,000 to get the job done. He laid out an ambitious program, including seven volumes for ancient art, four more for the Far East, seven for Britain, six for Italy, and six for the Americas, Spain, Germany and Holland. To write them, he picked such experts as Charles Seymour Jr. from Yale, Paul Frankl from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and John Pope-Hennessy from Britain...
With Manstein's release, only one prominent German general still remains in an Allied jail for war crimes: General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, ex-chief of the Nazi occupation forces in Norway...