European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 05, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse Moz by computer Uhruch chemist Schiller poet they fathered German culture r3 is in music through Einstein influence of Germany flourishes the a stabs and stripes report and Kant world Over Bernadette Anc Bunsen be Dietrich and diesel the symphonies of Beethoven and. Ten times when germans merely played follow the Leader. For a Long time germans dominated Thela. To it j it .5 v. .7,. A a Wib Udie i romans dominated tne3be Smied a fans buildings eld of music. Almost every Schoolboy is physicist Vii and aspirin. What do these have in common no much on the surface but closer inspection will show the joining thread a Ger Man ancestry or influence. Time a not too Long ago when the Mere thought of German culture and Man Onusic. Familiar with the three Esbach Bee Hoven. Brahms All germans of the 18th and 19th As Well known Are Wagner Mendelssohn Richard Strauss and the austrians Mozart and Schubert who also fall into the mainstream of Ger scientific v Beethoven composer i i Rought shudders and 12 Nightmare years Oit Hitler had Given these. Words a. Meaning never in tended by philosophers or dictionary Mak ers and left the world Wilth a Strongi to be eng that anything coming out of the land of Siegfried most be closely examine for the Booby trap. How much of Hitler s revolver and Gas chamber culture was accepted by the Mlennan people in their minds will prob ably never be known. For every Public opinion poll there can be a contrary pallor contrary interpretation. But it is Safe to a say that most germans Are proud of the centuries before Hitler when German Genius was free to Inake its influence Felt Ori the rest of the world and in turn to ieel7he influence of foreign minds. And it is this pre Hitler culture no the aryan fables of the 1930swhich is the dominant influence in the arts and sciences of Germany today. Gemma Jim like most other nations i Europe Lias had periods when its writers musicians artists and scientists set the pattern for the world and there have to other country has produced As Many great composers As the area which is flow Germany. J it did t really get to be Ger Many until Bismarck unified a number of Independent states and kingdoms at the time of the Franco prussian War in 1870.i the music produced by these great was music. Though Royalty was often the Patron the individual com Poser wrote to suit his own tastes and Otto Oder it was not aryan music or marxist Leninist stalinist music for that matter. It was not Onusic by decree. ". Though Hitler touted Beethoven s music at is highly doubtful if the compliment would Ever have been returned for Beethoven one of the greatest musicians fall time was a so a great Lover of free Donult is said that he dedicated his third symphony. The a re la to a hereto Napoleon for Thel French general s action sin spreading tie democratic principles of the French revolution of 1789 throughout Europe but when Napoleon made himself first Consul a effect dictator of France,.Beethoven ripped Che dedication from his score. Under Hitler scientists were harnessed to help prepare aggressive War. But be fore Hitler the fre scientific mind in Ger Many was Able to contribute a Host of discoveries which proved of Benefit Taall Mankind. A number of the. Scientists of the last Century being jews would not have had a Chance under the nazis. More recently others like Albert Einstein fled their native land to the Sanctuary of the . To among the last Century s outstanding chemists was Paul Ehrlich who developed _ the magic Bullet an arsenic compound which was the first effective cure for syphilis. Ehrlich s work gave impetus tothe present Day use of inoculations to cure and prevent disease. % Robert Koch was another of the Earl German microbe he found the tuberculosis Bacillus and a Way to immunize humans against cholera and animals against anthrax the Bunsen Buner the most common piece of Laboratory equipment today was invented in the Laist Century by a Heidel Berg professor named Robert . The Oil burning diesel engine,1 motive Force of thousand of Ocean liners Loco motives and of much traffic on the Auto Bahns owes its name to Rudolf diesel who unveiled it in 1892. Another German of the same Era Gottlieb Daimler made the first practical gasoline engine. Perhaps the greatest German prewar contribution in chemistry came in the Field of synthetics. To German research the world today owes much of 4ts plastics fertilizer explosives sulfa drugs dyes continued of Page Bunsen
