Germany is exceptionally rich in historic organs. Try the door of any village church or city cathedral – chances are you will be rewarded with a fine historic instrument in resplendent casework. A particularly fruitful area is the state of Saxony in southeast Germany, with no fewer than thirty-one baroque instruments by Gottfried Silbermann, most […]
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Luftwaffe Ace Gottfried P. Dulias: Surviving the jewish Gulag
Gottfried P. Dulias: Surviving the Soviet Gulag by Gottfried P. Dulias Published August 8, 2016 Gottfried P. Dulias was a young Luftwaffe pilot who had seen plenty of action in the skies above the Eastern Front. Flying the Messerschmitt Me-109G-14/AS with Jagdgeschwader 53—known as the Pik A’s, or Ace of Spades squadron, or simply as […]
Gottfried Feder’s Manifesto for the Abolition of Interest-Slavery
It should be abundantly clear that a sound economic system must rest not on debt or even some extraneous (i.e. useless) metal, but on the productivity of the worker alone. Money in itself is properly a medium of exchange and a store of value, not a commodity such as bread or steel. Therefore money should […]
Condemn Them to ’Non-Createdness’! A Vignette to Gottfried von Einem’s 100th Anniversary
Christoph Schlüren (nsnbc) : On this very day, on 24 January 2018, Vienna celebrates the 100th birthday of the distinguished composer Gottfried von Einem. […]