Foreign News: THE WAR AND DIETRICH

The world might have forgotten the fact, but Berlin was something more than international military-government headquarters. People still lived there. This week TIME'S Berlin Correspondent John Scott cabled:

One afternoon about a fortnight ago, I was taking leave of a German acquaintance on Limastrasse in front of my Zehlendorf house while a spry, blond boy about three and a half feet high stood gaping at me, as his kind in Berlin will. When I had said goodbye and turned to walk toward the mess, he came up, grinned, took my hand and said, "Du...

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