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...Building Revived. In West Berlin, the Reichstag once again became habitable. A huge, florid structure of Silesian sandstone-since 1894 the home of whatever democracy Germany knew from the days of Bismarck through the Weimar Republic-the building had bulked vacant and lifeless ever since it was gutted by fire on Feb. 27, 1933. The Nazis claimed the fire was kindled by Communists as the signal for a Red uprising, and a confused Dutch boy named Marinus Van der Lubbe was be headed for his alleged part in the crime. Since the Reichstag fire gave Hitler a pretext to gain...
...Reichstag was further damaged by Allied bombers and by shellfire in the closing days of World War II. Though many Germans thought that it should remain in ruins-as a reminder of the past-slow reconstruction work was begun in 1958. By last week the south wing, containing 45 offices, seven conference rooms and a presidential suite, was formally reopened. It will take about four more years and an additional $12.5 million to completely restore the Reichstag. Unanswered, so far, is the question of who will occupy it and why. The Bundestag is unlikely to leave Bonn for Berlin...
...Universal sent him to Berlin to arrange for the exhibition of the German version of All Quiet on the Western Front. The film was banned when the Nazis bombed the theater opening night, but Spiegel ran a series of private screenings for Reichstag members and Nazi Leaders Hitler, Goebbels, and Goring. Over the Nazis' protests, the ban was lifted. But when Hitler came to power in 1933, Spiegel thought it best to flee to Vienna. Six years later, he returned to Hollywood with an idea for casting a picture with nothing but stars. Tales of Manhattan had nothing...
Ende, a mining engineer who served as an archconservative Deputy in the Reichstag in the last days of the Weimar Republic, joined Salzgitter in 1941, when it was still known as Reichswerke Hermann Goring. He ran its mining operations in Germany and in Nazi-occupied lands. In 1950 he was picked by Bonn to revitalize what the war had left to Salzgitter: a ragged collection of steelmaking plants, largely dismantled, built around some low-grade ore mines in northern Germany. Despite the many problems, Ende opened new mines, modernized the ore processing, put up steel mills, branched into oil drilling...
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...