Word: vietor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British poet, who is currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, will share tonight's panel with Karl Vietor, Kuno Francke Professor of Germanic Art and Culture, and Renato Poggioli, Associate professor of Comparative Literature, who is American editor of the Italian quarterly, "Inventario." The Dunster House Forum will sponsor the discussion...
While elements of the German people have opposed Hitler, Professor Vietor is aware that they have all been forced to submit to the New Order. He does not believe that any known representatives of the liberal element who have escaped will prove future leaders...
Formerly Professor at the University of Giesson, and a visiting lecturer here in 1935 and 1936, Professor Vietor is disinclined to propose any specific policy to be followed in German occupation. He is certain, however, that while "the Allies can prevent a lot of undesirable things," outside pressure alone "cannot force the Germans to become good moral beings...
Finding "some hope" for cultural recovery in an historical analogy. Professor Vietor refers to the period following the devastating Thirty Years War, when the "venerable idea of tolerance sprung up and led to a long period of relatively high culture...
Stressing that "Germany has not always been an aggressor," Professor Vietor points out that she "was a peaceful nation in the time of Goethe, Schiller, and the Romanticists." He states, however, that a change came at the end of the nineteenth century, when the country desired to assert itself and oppose the "have" nations such as England...