Word: vietor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stating that the Allies can not successfully re-educate Germany but that "the Germans must educate themselves," Karl Vietor, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, emphasized yesterday that the stimulus for the rehabilitation of Germany as a responsible nation must come from within the country itself...
According to Professor Vietor, who came here from Germany in 1937, "conditions for some time to come after the war will hardly offer any chance for a quick rebirth of the nation as such." He explains, that, in the long run, "the decisive thing should be whether there will develop a spiritual or religious movement strong enough to make the nation realize how deeply it has deteriorated and that it has to struggle for some kind of moral and intellectual renewal...
...Karl Vietor, for the preparation of a book on Goethe's philosophy...