Faber Castle in Stein, Germany, a great, ugly stone pile, is a house that German lead pencils built. The Fabers still live at Faber Castle, but in a former guesthouse, still manufacture pencils on the grounds, but mostly for the Military Government. Since November the castle has housed the foreign pencils and typewriters of the world's press corps covering the Nürnberg trials. Last week the frenzied work, the legendary drinking bouts were over. To one last gigantic press party went judges, prosecutors, almost everyone in Nürnberg but the defendants. Except for a brief...
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