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...Federation has made a turn toward the right with the election of free-enterprising Ludwig Rosenberg, 59, as chairman. Unlike his up-from-the-factory colleagues, Rosenberg is a lifelong white-collar worker who became a union organizer more out of intellectual conviction than economic necessity, fled the Third Reich in 1933 and later helped the British Ministry of Labor find wartime jobs for thousands of refugees from Hitler. Returning to Germany, he concluded that free competition would best invigorate the West German economy, became foreign affairs chief of the union federation. One of the top-ranking of the surviving...
...stayed in Italy, surrounded by a tiny coterie of friends. He apparently had no interest in fame: the few major exhibitions of his work took place after his death. The new German artists acknowledged him as a master, but his work dropped out of sight again during the Third Reich. It was not that the Nazis considered him particularly "decadent''; it was just that he was the son of a Jewish mother...
With the same care, Armstrong, who became editor after Coolidge's death in 1928, has preserved Foreign Affairs' role as hospitable but impartial host to all international viewpoints. A world observer of considerable vision himself-"A people has disappeared," he wrote in his 1933 book, Hitlers Reich, at a time when most of the world still considered the Nazi leader a harmless crackpot-Armstrong has yielded the floor to the world's thought molders, statesmen and diplomats...
Although Germany had its suffragettes early in the century-and a woman in the Reichstag by 1919-emancipation on a national scale has come only since the war. The Third Reich borrowed its idea of womanhood from 19th century romanticism, when a German woman was considered "a happy, still oasis, a wellspring of life's poetry, a remnant of paradise." But cleaning up the postwar rubble of man-shy Germany was no job for a still oasis, and women took on a responsibility that has since produced a staggering social revolution...
...June 15 Germany: Fathers and Sons (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). An examination of the "barrier of silence" between Germans who lived under Hitler and the younger generation who have grown up since the fall of the Third Reich...