The box camera design with simple one-speed shutter and two mirror/lens-based viewfinders goes back to the 1901 Brownie No. 2, and the 1950 Vredeborch Vrede Box Standard Menis camera shows that ...

Boasts a 1950 German travel folder: “Hamburg has everything.” To Germans from the shabby towns and the bombed-out cities, the statement seems true. Stork Club on the Elbe. The shops that line the ...

THE United States has contributed more to German rehabilitation than to the reconstruction of any Western democracy except Britain and France. In a gesture of forgiveness unparalleled in history, the ...

This little book, written in 1946 by the dean of German historians, is one of the most significant to come out of his country since the war. Once an anti-Semite and apostle of Treitschke, Meinecke at ...

OF the 11 million refugees throughout Germany, 7 million are in the three Western zones. Actually, most of these are in the British and American zones; the French originally refused to admit refugees, ...

Coffee was introduced into Europe as far back as the sixteenth century, and by the seventeenth, coffeehouse culture was at the heart of the Age of Enlightenment. As on the rest of the continent, ...