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Benjamin Harrison was in the White House; in Paris, Professor Louis Pasteur was working out his theories on bacteria; and in Würzburg, Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen was on the threshold of discovering the X ray, with scarcely a glimmering of the wonderful and terrible world of radioactivity that lay beyond. At Washington's Smithsonian Institution, itself only 46 years old, a 23-year-old instrument maker named Andrew Kramer applied for a job. Secretary Samuel P. Langley hired him on trial, that October day in 1892, to equip his astrophysical observatory. Last week...
Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth sounded a practical note. "We all know that God is with us," he told the people of Würzburg, "but let's not rely on God alone. Let's work so hard and fight so fiercely that God cannot refuse to hand the victory palm to Germany...
...feverish, ambitious young Adolf Hitler heard a lecture by a disgruntled young construction engineer named Gottfried Feder. Feder, a native of Würzburg, boiled down Germany's economic troubles to too much raffendes Kapital ("international, Jewish, exploitive"), too little schaffendes Kapital ("national, purely German, creative"). Later Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf: "When I heard Feder . . . the idea instantly flashed through my head that I had now found my way to one of the prime essentials for the foundation of a new party...
Born in Würzburg, Bavaria, Lilli Lehmann started her career as a coloratura soprana. Bellini and Donizetti were her gods. Then she met a little man with burning eyes. He was her mother's former lover and he told her she must study his music. And so she abandoned her Traviata, her Mignon, her Carmen, and became instead an Elsa, a Brünnhilde, an Isolde. Soon she became world renowned as the great Wagner interpreter. In 1885 she went to the U. S., to the Metropolitan. City after city paid her tribute. Grover Cleveland and Andrew Carnegie...