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...Nuremberg. Precariously clinging to the neck of the dragon he has created, little Adolf Hitler saw the world more unified against Germany than at any time since 1918, and preparing to do something about it. It was time for Hitlerism to pull its horns in once more, and that Hand- some Adolf proceeded to do with superlative skill. In medieval Nuremberg, home of Die Meistersinger and Albrecht Durer, scene of the first public Nazi review, yet another huge Nazi fiesta was under way. Bands blew their lungs out, flags fluttered from every housefront, tens of thousands of Nazis tramped their...
Part of most tourists' fun in quaint old Nuremberg is shuddering at the medieval torture instruments in its thick-walled Burg (citadel). Last week Nuremberg Storm Troopers revived a medieval custom. They seized a woman convicted of mistreating her stepchild, drove her through the streets with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion through the streets. They...
...have become Protestant pastors!" Such stuff of course meant nothing except that the Nazis were resolved to win the ballot battle. Up for election were candidates to fill some 400,000 posts as German church elders and board members. All over the Fatherland Nazi intimidation tactics worked. In Munich, Nuremberg and scores of lesser cities the von Bodelschwingh opposition crumpled up completely, agreed to support "fusion lists" of candidates, each packed with a thumping majority of Nazi "German Christians...
Many early prints are to be found in the room. Four colored wood-cuts from the 1483 "Nuremberg Bible" are the oldest objects present. There is an impression in its second state of Rembrandt's etching "St. Peter and St. John at the Gate of the Temple". The seventeenth century French portrait engravers are represented by Edelinck and Pierre Drevet in their "Jean Andre" and "Andre Rercules" respectively. Prints from the studies of Hogarth, Barlom, and Oadry are also on display...
Harmonic drama in all of its trappings will be furnished in the playing of Wagner's prelude to "The Master-singers of Nuremberg". In this opus a march theme is ingeniously woven into the theme which suggests the love of Walther and Eva. The score holds many surprises and, in all, is intensely stimulating...