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When the bombs came down on Berlin last week (see p.30), one casualty was Professor Albert Speer's big Ministry for Armaments and Munitions in Pariserplatz. A Swedish correspondent reported that suave, slick-haired Albert Speer rose to the occasion, gathered his staff around him and declaimed: "Gentlemen, we will not take it to heart that our dossiers are destroyed. It will teach us to have even less red tape in our department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hard Nut | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Down the Wilhelmstrasse and Unter den Linden across the Pariserplatz and through the centre arch of the Brandenburg Gate-through which, during the Imperial regime, only the Kaiser could pass-went the long company of ad mourners. The tense excitement cf the populace was severe and the involuntary surge of the crowd as it tried to prolong its last look at the majesty of the funeral pomp caused women to shriek and faint. (U. S. newspapers attributed this erroneously to "the bursting of emotion pent up beyond endurance." Berlin crowds, as is well known, are not so hysterical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Funeral | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...Pariserplatz, where stands the French Embassy, police mounted, and on foot, solid contingents of Reichswehr prevented any hostile demonstration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lacrimation | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

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