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...tall, gangling youth with the Kaiser Wilhelm mustache was a model of self-discipline at the University of Freiburg. Limited to a small monthly allowance of $21, he was never known to squander or borrow a pfennig. At night, nodding over his law books, he would take off his shoes and socks, immerse his feet in a tub of cold water to stay awake. He never fought a duel, but he was no square. He pledged a fraternity, acquired the "Biername" (drinking nickname) of "Toni," and at frothy functions would bang his stein on an oak table in unison with...
...Born Princess of Hanover, Frederika is a granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II (and a great-great-granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, which also makes her a British princess and a third cousin of Queen Elizabeth). When Frederika was a year old, her family moved from Germany to Austria, where she spent most of her childhood. As a girl, she supposedly belonged to a Hitlerite youth group. In school in Italy during her late teens, at a time when three of her brothers served in the Wehrmacht, she was heard to defend Nazi Germany. That is about the only...
Tired Watching. This year, seeded No. 4, McKinley did not even lose a set. He got unexpected help from Germany's Wilhelm Bungert, who upset Australia's No. 1 -seeded Roy Emerson in a mara thon quarterfinal. McKinley routed Bungert, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6. Said the German: "I was tired. Tired from those five-set matches earlier. And tired from watching McKinley run." In the finals, Chuck came up against lanky Fred Stolle, a Sydney bank clerk who had beaten him four out of six times in previous matches. Trying to blow McKinley off the court...
...failure. For one thing, explains Bultmann Disciple Günther Bornkamm, "it became alarmingly and terrifyingly evident how inevitably each author brought the spirit of his own age into his presentation of the figure of Jesus." For another, such turn-of-the-century theologians as Johannes Weiss and Wilhelm Wrede proved conclusively that the Gospels were not simple historical accounts but highly sophisticated theological works in which the oral tradition preserved by Christ's early disciples was considerably expanded. This oral tradition consisted almost exclusively of Jesus' sayings; thus his actions as recounted in the Gospels...
...pictorial archive from which producers draw-walking corpses at Buchenwald, heiling stormtroopers at Nazi rallies, Hitler jigging while Europe burns-has become predictable if still shocking. But Producer Louis Clyde Stoumen (The Naked Eye), finding new film and skillfully interpolating drawings by Picasso, Grosz, Doré and Wilhelm von Kaulbach, has given the story of those years a new aspect. This Oscar-winning film is not just another post-mortem on Hitler: it is a trenchant commentary on the hows and whys of Naziism...