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...witness testified that, although Furtwängler was the Nazi-appointed Staatsrat (state councilor) of Prussia, he had conducted only four times at Nazi Party affairs, had turned down 60 invitations. Another witness, a Jew, said that Furtwängler had saved his life,' and the lives of other Jews. For nearly two hours last week the Germans on the tribunal, three of whom had been in concentration camps, deliberated. Their verdict: Wilhelm Furtwängler was not guilty of collaboration...
...Russia alone that had conquered Bonaparte. But when the citizens of Paris looked for the other Allied leaders, they looked in vain. Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh, Austria's Emperor Francis I and his Foreign Minister Metternich were dallying in distant Dijon; King Frederick William of Prussia was off tobogganing. Bonaparte was defeated; but the victors' sturdy unity was already succumbing to mutual anxiety, suspicion, self-seeking, and secretiveness...
...each saw that "stability" in his own ,vay. To Metternich and Castlereagh, thousands of Russian soldiers in Europe were almost as frightening as Napoleon's rand Army. Instead, England, France and Austria signed a secret treaty of military alliance against Russia and her satelite Prussia. Even while the Congress was sitting in Vienna, war between its peacemakers was often considered inevitable. Who Won? Each delegate also brought the peace table his own valuation of his country's contribution to victory. Britons were in no doubt that their 20 years' resistance to Napoleon had been decisive. Austria believed...
...while they talked at Vienna, the world changed about them. When the talking began, Russia and Austria were the major European land-powers. But when Napoleon escaped from Elba, the Russian armies had dribbled home; Austria was occupied in Italy. Only England and Prussia were set to smash Napoleon at Waterloo, and their joint victory made Prussia a major nation, England the most powerful country in Europe...
...Glittering Notoriety. Yet he was no flop. Before he was 30 he had risen to the post of supply commissary in the Grand Army, and served as military governor of Brunswick in occupied Prussia (he took his pen name from the little German town of Stendal). He returned to France a member of "that hierarchy of five or six hundred top officials through whom the Empire was ruled...