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...rigid, good-sized, well-disciplined occupational force. So their cunning minds lead them to bow over backwards, knowing that this attitude will soon reassure us that these poor misled people have learned their lesson. So we will go home and live happily ever after-until another Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, or Hitler climbs onto a balcony and starts screaming...
...small, bare, stuffy room in Berlin, a 60-year-old man sat nervously in a straight-backed chair, facing an eight-man tribunal. He was a famous man, a great conductor-Wilhelm Furtwängler. With a nervous stammer he groped for words...
...Party affairs, had turned down 60 invitations. Another witness, a Jew, said that Furtwängler had saved his life,' and the lives of other Jews. For nearly two hours last week the Germans on the tribunal, three of whom had been in concentration camps, deliberated. Their verdict: Wilhelm Furtwängler was not guilty of collaboration...
...Russians had already reached the same conclusion. It remained only for the U.S. members of the Allied Denazification Committee to change their minds (they were expected to) and Wilhelm Furtwängler could once again conduct his Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra...
...recruit some of the faculty for the German School of Advanced Studies from scholars exiled by the Nazis. Courses will be taught in German and the school will be paid for mainly by 3,500,000 marks ($350,000) of German local-government funds. Probable site: the old Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute in the U.S. sector of Berlin...