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...Reuter went back to Berlin in 1918. A letter from Lenin recommended him as "a man with a brilliant and lucid mind-but a little too independent." Reuter soon broke with the Reds and returned to Socialism. Pravda called him a warmonger...
...twice put into concentration camp by the Nazis. When he got out he took refuge in London (where he learned his fluent and colorful English), then skipped to Turkey, where he mastered the language and lectured on city government. At the end of World War II, Ernst Reuter was eking out a living in Ankara. He rushed home to Berlin...
...Hope. "The city lay in ruins," he wrote afterwards. "Barren, rigid as an icy waste, dead. A horrible hopelessness seemed to pervade the atmosphere." Reuter's first historic achievement was to give Berlin hope...
...Reuter's long-memoried Socialists elected him mayor. His slouching figure, encased in flapping, light raincoat and surmounted by a cheeky black beret, soon became a familiar sight in West Berlin. Poking in the ruins with his thick, brown cane, strolling through the Tiergarten, where he would sometimes help the Haus-frauen gather sticks for their fires, Ernst Reuter became a man whom the people loved. They called him Herr Berlin...
...Reuter led Berlin out of the valley of death. The airlift that saved it was his finest hour. While the admiring world watched, the first moments of greatness touched the mayor of Berlin, raising him into the company of those who catch and express the spirit of their time. As Churchill's voice had rung from Britain in the dark days of 1940, so the voice of Ernst Reuter rang out from blockaded Berlin, defying the enemy, rousing the free. "Nothing is going to be conquered here-" he thundered. "This city cannot be conquered- We will defend this...