When the G.I.s took over Germany, they closed Heidelberg, Germany's oldest and most famed university. It was a sorry parody of itselfand had been for ten years. When, in 1936, educators from 32 nations went to Germany to pay their respects on Heidelberg's 550th birthday, they found themselves officiating at a wake. The Student Prince atmosphere of Heidelberg, the beer mugs, the sabers and the sashes were gone. SS uniforms and swastika flags had displaced them.
In silence the assembly listened as a Heidelberg professor, Nazi Ernst Krieck, shouted: "We do not recognize or...
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