Leipzig's great railway station was smashed and burned in the bombings, but its charred walls were hung last week with red bunting, evergreen boughs and Socialist slogans. Tens of thousands of Germans, transported on 95 special trains, poured through it to Leipzig's first fair since 1941. Other Germans came, as visitors to the Leipzig Fair had come 700 years ago, by horse & wagon and a foot.
The 2,750 exhibitors (2,500 of them from other parts of the Russian 20ne of Germany) had little to show, less to sell for immediate delivery. But...
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