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...Schöne Jahren. Gttingen's scientific star shone in the early 19th century under Astronomer Carl Gauss, one of the key founders of modern mathematical analysis and hence of modern physics. In the 1920s Physicists Max Born and James Franck taught on Gottingen's Bunsenstrasse. named after Alumnus Robert Bunsen, inventor of the burner...
...nder as well as West Berlin, plus a staff of 25 specialists who search out and study cache after cache of Hitler's wartime records. Their goal is always the same: new names and new evidence. The Central Office's director is Erwin Schüle, 49, a veteran of the Wehrmacht campaign in Russia, who spent two months in 1960 sifting the huge mounds of Nazi documents in the U.S. archives warehouse in Alexandria, Va. His work helped build up a list of thousands of Germans involved in one way or another with Nazi mass murders...
...Schüle's office does no prosecuting itself, simply passes its findings on to justice authorities in each Land. Because the research and indexing tasks are immense, many of the prosecutions are a decade or more late, but, says Schüle hopefully, "one thing leads to another." Thus, when Central Office agents were interrogating a onetime SS leader, the name "Heuser" kept cropping up in connection with terror against Jews near the Russian city of Minsk. But "Heuser" meant nothing until the Central Office cross index turned up the grisly testimony of a witness at the Nurnberg...
While the trial proceeds, Schüle and his staff are already busy investigating a whole new batch of suspects. They are hurrying because by May 1965, a statute of limitations on murder could put hundreds of World War II killers beyond the reach of the jailer...
...could hear what has happened to his schöne, weltbekannte melody, Papa Liszt no doubt would be writhing, not twisting. And he would have plenty of company-solid German doctors who warn against "accelerating one's hips and legs in opposite directions," parents and churchmen who deplore "the overt sexual implications of the dance." But some German intellectuals defend the twist. It is, says one Munich psychiatrist, "a proper cure for working off frustrations." And a psychiatrist in Berlin, where the cold war takes the rap for all sorts of aberrations, sees it as a byproduct...