European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I r i 5 it m i Lul g German faces a portrait of f i e West zones pictures and text by 2 correspondents ver since the end of world War Ann Stringer and Henry Ries have been interviewing and photographing be people of in their stories and pictures sought to catch the spirit of the German the Ger Roan the German personal in their search they played no they talked to the leaders As Well As to the to businessmen and Art it it t now at last this husband and Rifo team has put together the Best of their work in a Book called German wcj1 aware that they were dealing with men and women who filled the most dangerous political vacuum of our the authors of German faces depict the germans As but never inwardly accepting their guilty of Horren Dous crimes on a National but never admitting their the sum total of the Stringer pen and the Ries camera is an extraordinarily Complete picture of today Alt Tough inc Book concentrates on Essen and each Section is an emotional experience in in these the whole West Ern world is pulling for democracy in for a free Ger Many that can someday take her place in a peaceful society of does this in its words or provide any Hope does As americans understand have a Chance to the flagrant a so peal of pay the authors of g e r m a n democracy is colourless and to a people who respect and Admire Only who have never really known who have persistently returned to slavery through their own democracy Isa difficult Ware to the ideology of the Kremlin which requires no Burden of thought is More in keeping with the German of if the germans choose the it will be theirs to and serving they do very Well and political or the Little people Olio have never done any they have always faithfully served their whoever they happened to Ann now with the the United press and the co Lumbia broadcasting is a Texas girl who became a War correspondent with the path 1st armies in 1944 and 1945 after her correspondent William was killed in in 1947 in Germany fhe met Henry new York times and two years later they were Ries was born in Berlin in fled to America in served As a i with army intelligence units u r i n g the and joined the new York times after his technical skill and human understanding make German faces fresh and but whether the authors realize it or it demonstrates what so Many Are inclined to that there is no such thing As a typical Tefr wrote the text Henry her husband a new times photog a Phe stationed in one of the faces in Western Ger Many today Ahjit Chancel Lor of the Bonn Sho xvii at left the flae that res the state he below arc to o postwar German returned sold tar Loo fins out Over desolate pm that was a German Railroad Yard in a and a Cir worn German twite and German faces a profile of Germany