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...must congratulate TIME, Oct. 14, on "A Masterpiece Come Home." It is refreshing to read such articles about the finer things of life; and the triptych of the famed Cracow Altar by Wit Stwosz, or Veit Stoss if you prefer, is certainly one of the finest. The beautiful illustration that accompanied the article clearly proves this. However the article refers to the sculptor as a German while Stoss was definitely a Pole...
...devout Poles thronged the 13th century Roman Catholic church and the small square outside one day in August while a solemn Mass of thanksgiving was offered. And for good reason. Cracow's altar is not only the largest Gothic altar in Christendom, but the greatest masterpiece carved by Veit Stoss, the German sculptor who. along with his younger contemporaries Mathias Grunewald, Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach. brought the art of the Middle Ages to its great and final climax...
With Needle & Knife. In 1940 the German army shipped the dismantled altar to Berlin to be stored like the treasure it is in the vaults of the Reichsbank. When the conquering U.S. Army moved into Germany, it found the crated altar in an air-conditioned vault in Veit Stoss's native Nürnberg. General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower ordered it shipped back to Cracow...
...read recently about neo-nazism in Germany, about the dangerous revival of fascist ideas in Germany. I want to say a word today about what German students think and do about it. The director of what probably was the most anti-Semitic movie ever made under the Nazi regime, Veit Harlan was acquitted some years ago in a denazification court. This threw the way open to him to go back into the celluloid industry. But in spite of the legal acquittal, Germans did not think that the question was settled...
...January of this year the first performance of the new film by Veit Harlan were to be given in several West German cities. Students in those cities worked out resolutions in protest against the performance of the film (its name is "Hanna Amon"). This resolution is endorsed by the University of Freiburg by all major student groups: the student council, the Christian-Democrat, the Social-Democrat student associations and by the international organization ISSF (German section of ISMUN...