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Died. Max Theodor Felix von Laue, 80, German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize for his work on the nature of X rays; of injuries in an auto accident; in West Berlin. Though he did atomic research in the early days of World War II, Von Laue quit in 1943 in protest against the Nazi regime. In 1957 he was spokesman for 18 German physicists who opposed equipping West German forces with tactical nuclear weapons...
...stepped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, come with three of his Cabinet Ministers, members of the diplomatic corps and a group of Jewish leaders to pay tribute to Belsen's Jewish dead. It was the first visit of any high West German official to the place since former President Theodor Heuss unveiled the memorial seven years...
...Refugee Minister Theodor Oberlaender, 54, who was a political officer with the Wehrmacht's Nightingale Battalion of pro-German Ukrainian nationalists when they entered Lvov in 1941. Before an international commission in The Hague this month, Oberlaender denied a charge that he ordered the massacre of 2,400 Ukrainians, Poles and Jews at Lvov, declared that the Russians did it before he got there...
Nobody was getting much sleep last week at the home of University of Munich Pediatrician Dr. Theodor Hellbrügge, 40. Reason: after tiptoeing through three clinics and two orphans' homes to record 13,248 separate observations on the sleeping habits of youngsters. Hellbrügge and a team of researchers concluded that children sleep less and need less sleep than many parents believe. While Hellbrügge's findings are already well accepted by most pediatricians, angry mothers and fathers jammed his phone well into the night with complaints that their youngsters were using his findings...
Spiegel's findings, praised by West German Historian Theodor Eschenburg as "serious and scientific," point out that the case against Hitler, Göring & Co. rests on hearsay as suspect as the Nazi accusation against the Communists. Spiegel had used, among other evidence, the institute's files in Munich. Historian Anton Hoch, the institute's archivist, accepting the scientific basis of Spiegel's findings, commented: "We must report atrocities such as Auschwitz and Belsen concentration camps, but for the sake of truth we must also show that Nazis were not to blame for the Reichstag fire...