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Protestant & Catholic. There were two Germanys in the world long before the Allies of 1945 divided the country into an Eastern zone and a Western. The culture of each was built and nurtured on religious traditions. The smaller of the Germanys, in the Rhineland and Bavaria, was and is largely Roman Catholic and bourgeois, the Germany of Munich, the old Rhenish bishoprics and the industrial Ruhr. This is the Germany of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. It thinks back, with some nostalgia, to the European and Catholic unity of the Holy Roman Empire. Catholic voters, a decisive force through history...
...comparison of his own foreign policy and that of F.D.R. Sketching in the background of the U.S. decision to intervene in Korea-"the decision I believe was the most important in my time as President"-Truman recalled the easy conquests of aggressor nations in the 1930s-Manchuria, Ethiopia, the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia. He went on: "Think about those years of weakness and indecision and World War II. which was their evil result. Then think about the speed and courage and decisiveness with which we have moved against the Communist threat since World...
Born in Wuppertal in the Rhineland, Mrs. Schumacher was raised in Freiburg near the Swiss border. An accomplished pianist, she studied at the Conservatory in Munich. In 1935, she decided that "Mr. Hitler and I did't agree too well" and joined the thousands of Germans who waited in neighboring countries for the fall of a regime few believed could last. Mrs. Schumacher spent three years in Italy, largely in Naples and in Sicily, but in 1938, the Anschluss and the hungry eye turned toward Czechoslovakia brought complete disillusionment. Recognizing that Hitler clearly would last and that war would follow...
...night of Feb. 21, 1945, R.A.F. bombers made a brief but deadly trip over Worms, Germany. Next morning, when the fires died, little was left of the old Rhineland city. One of the worst casualties among its historic buildings was the 1,100-year-old Magnuskirche, where Martin Luther preached in 1521 when he came to defend his doctrines at the Diet of Worms against the Pope's theologians. German Lutherans have since regarded the Magnuskirche as the world's first Protestant church...
...Bosses. Boss of the whole show is Security Minister Wilhelm Zaisser, whose profession is revolution. Communist Zaisser led the Rhineland Red uprisings of 1923, later turned up in Spain as "General Gomez," commander of the 13th International Brigade. Heinz Hoffman, Inspector General of the Vopo, is a graduate of the Red army's war college...