GERMANY: Führer as Father

In the Wilhelmstrasse sidewalks outside Adolf Hitler's gadget-ridden Chancellery are a number of vast covered pits. From four of them slabs of cement rise and part, and out push anti-aircraft guns. One other is a huge elevator which swallows into the Chancellery's great catacombs anything from a bicycle to a ten-ton tank. Every evening last week, as dusk rubbed out the building's heroic contours, a bus drove up on the sidewalk and disappeared into the ground.

Three levels below the surface, far from the biggest bomb's reach, the occupants stepped or were carried out. They were expectant mothers, taking shelter from...

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