Volume 48, Number 17 · November 1, 2001
Founding Father
By Gordon A. Craig
Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany
by Charles Williams
Wiley, 584 pp., $35.00
In the fall of 1944, in the wake of the bomb plot against Hitler, Konrad Adenauer was arrested by the Gestapo on the mistaken assumption that he had been an accomplice and was taken to a prison at Brauweiler. After he had been deprived of his braces, shoe laces, necktie, and pocket knife, and put in a narrow unheated cell, the warden said to him, 'Now please do not commit suicide. You would cause me no end of trouble. You're seventy years old and your life is over anyway.'
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