European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse The Reich Stag aflame in 1933. An innocent youth was blamed and continued from Page 11 West Germany repairing damage done to historic Reich Stag by arson and War government has no plans to occupy it. But West germans have never Given up Hope that someday their country will reunified with Berlin As the capital. This is the reason the parliament in Bonn spurred by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Wanted the building erected in Bismarck s time restored. When the project is completed therein Stag building will probably Cost the Federal government More than $10 the West German government should move to Berlin a new office building will have to be constructed to take care of members of the bundesrat upper House the bundestag lower House and other government adjacent to the Reich Stag has been reserved for these buildings when and if they Are years ago the West German government granted $15,000 for Survey of a future government Center in Berlin. The Reich Stag building was actually built 65 years ago As an outcome of the unification of Germany. After the Franco prussian War when Kaiser Wil Helm i was proclaimed emperor of Ger Many he ordered a building be erected for the new parliament. The Cornerstone was Laid in 1884. Ten years later the build ing was , the first truly democratic parliament and the last did not meet under the huge dome of the chamber until after Kaiser Wilheim ii abdicated at the end of world War was the parliament of the Weimar Republic that ended 14 years later when the building went up in flames on the night of feb. 27, 1933. A month earlier Hitler had becom Chancellor of what was still a Constitution Al democracy. While the Reich Stag was ablaze he ordered his storm troopers Totake Over the nation s Public buildings and key Industry the next Day the coalition Cabinet agreed to temporarily suspend All civil rights. This was one week before the crucial National elections. The nazis began a reign of terror against communists whom Hitler blamed for starting the fire and other opponents. Police arrested a suspected arsonist Marinus Van Der Lubbe a mentally retarded youth who had once belonged to a communist organization in Holland. He was sentenced to death by the nazis opponents of the nazis charged that Goering had sent a gang to set fire to the Reich Stag in a dozen different places. The were said to have used the Tunnel from Goering s Palace now in the soviet Sec Tor to enter the cellars and to escape after the fires broke out. Hitler never repaired the Reich Stag. He moved his puppet parliament into the nearby Kroll opera House. The fire blackened ruin remained a Monument to the democracy that had perished i Germany. The Reich Stag was further damaged by Allied bombing and soviet hellfire during the War. When the russians captured Ber Lin they thought the building was the nazi Kremlin ignoring the opera House where the Hitler government met an planted a red Flag on its sagging dome. Today the names of thousand Russia soldiers written on the Marble inside the Reich Stag building still remain. During the hungry postwar years Ablack Market Center sprung up in front of the building. Some of the Metal sold there was stolen from the building by thieves who had stripped it Bare. Finally the weakened dome which will not be. Replaced under present plans was demolished before it fell the build ing was bricked up and remained a Brood ing ruin for a decade until construction Crews began the glow restoration Job a few years ago. 7 a left adjusts ttoelion4 App drat t,1 Fri a \ " j v now men Are learning that the Fieldon medical nursing in the military services to longer is strictly a woman s worlds it offers attractive careers to Youngmen with an interest in Medicine and a desire to Aid Hospital a few years ago commission s in the army and the air Force nurse corp were restricted to qualified female person Nel. Today with the growing interest shown by qualified Young men the two services Are commissioning male nurses on an Ever increasing Usa eur alone the army has 25 men pursuing careers of medical nursing at army hospitals and medical centers mostly former enlisted men who saw their chances and took advantage of them. The air Force has 24 throughout the Safe area not including strategic air come units. But what encourages a Man to seek Alife s career in nursing invading a Field Long thought of As belonging exclusively to women ? the answers Are almost always the same whether his patients Are airmen or infantrymen. " i was interested in Medicine and Hada genuine desire to help patients 1st it Eugene a. Cannuli of the Safe Hospital in Wiesbaden stated. Cannuli became an by Howard Coley staff writer air Force male nurse in 1956 when the first nurse s commissions were being passed out to men in both the army and air Force. Previous experience As an army medicaid civilian male nurse plus the usual service benefits and Security figured in his decision the Geneva n.y., officer added. Cannuli s big desire however is to be come a flight nurse. Soon after receiving his commission he applied for flight nurse training and a Short while later graduated from the school at Gunter air Force base Ala. He is waiting now for a vacancy to occur in Safe. As soon As the spot is open i have Hopes of being selected for the Job Cannuli said hopefully. Then i la have exactly wha i want air evacuation of patients As Well As serving As a nurse at the army Hospital Lan Stuhl 1st tharold c. Isbell of Sidney n.y., said he volunteered for the army nurse corps for similar reasons. Besides travel service benefits and a Opportunity to work in varied medical Fields Isbell commented the schooling is excellent and the equipment is the Bestin the medical he spoke As he admired the modern medical equipment in use at the army Hospital like Cannuli Isbell is married and hashes family with him in Europe. Isbell s wife also is a nurse and sometimes takes special nursing tasks at the Lan Stuhl Hospital he army nurse further pointed out that Many of the male nurses in the army to Day Are former pm corpsmen and technicians who left the services to attend nursing schools and re up with commis Sions. The qualifications Are similar in Bot the army and air Force graduation from an accredited school of nursing being registered with a state Board licensed and of course Able to pass the required military , whether the nurse is male or female the work is the same. In addition to general nursing duties he must assume the charge nurse s position in her absence assist the medical officer with examinations and treatments and administer proper Medicine dosages. Maintaining patient morale with in formal chats during Hospital confinement is High on the nurse s duty officers said too that serving As a male nurse actually is no different Romany other occupation basically and can t be beat1 As a military career. Recreation it it Harold c. Isbell Center plays game with two patients. Isbell left with maj Virginia Bufford assistant chief nurse and 1st it Alfred Pica another � a role nurse at the Lan Stuhl Hospital. The stars and stripes monday Augel 10, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 19
