ZUM4857185: Jul 07, 1953 - Picture is author Curzio Malaparte in Karlsruhe on the left. He was the author of the controversial book” Kaputt,” and was in court with a Braun von Stumm. On the right is Mrs. Dr. Stahlberg. She is the publisher of the book. Religous Art, Shanghai, China / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857346: Jul 07, 1953 - Czech refugees capture army recognition-car and crash Czech - German border: On 25 July 1953 at approximately 0430 hours in the morning, eight Czech civilians succeeded in escaping from behind the Iron Curtain, when they broke thru the frontier with an army reconnaissance because they had captured y themselves. The crew of the car were two Czech soldiers, two Czech civilians, women and two children, The refugees asked for asylum for political reasons. At approximately 0430 hours on 25 July 1953, Bavarian Frontier Police watched a Czech army reconnaissance car breaking thru the barbed-wire fence, at Haselbach, rural district Waldmuenchen (bavarian forest). Alarmed Czech guards on duty made an all-out effort to stop the car but they failed, owing to the high speed the car attained once it had crossed he frontier. The Bavarian frontier police alarmed the US Military Police, and in less than 30 minutes mechanized M.P. ' s were around, picked both refugees and car, and sequestrated the car immediately. Afternoon reports issued by wire from the US-high Command state “that the refugees are in US hands”. Already at 2200 hours the military authorities stationed in Regensburg, Upper Bavarian allowed German press reporters a conference held in Regensburg / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4852205: Jun. 06, 1953 - General Ridgway says good-by to Europe: General Matthew Ridgeway, NATO Commander, who is to take over the duties as US Chief of Staff, Bid farewell to Dr. Konrad Adenauer, West Germany's Chancellor, at Bonn, West Germany Yesterday. Picture Shows: Dr. Konrad Adenauer and (right) General Ridgway. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4852357: Jun 06, 1953 - Two-Ton Dicksie the Inquisitive Elephant. Two-ton Dicksie, a 12-year-old African elephant at the London zoo, is just as inquisitive as other little girls. On day she watched with interest the peculiar anti's of her that, when he shut the gate, he twiddle something on the other side. So one night Dicksie decided to do the same. There Was a click, and there in her trunk was a padlock. Dioksie decided to push the gate. It opened, and she strolled out along the public paths munching a hedgerow ot two. She them decided to pay a visit to her friend the gorilla, when along came someone she Recognised -Dicksie's own keeper, who gently taking her tusk led her back to her enclosure / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4853040: Jun 06, 1953 - Peach Massary loses her pearls- but is so happy.: Mrs. Peach Massary, who lost a claim against her former husband for? 4,000- worth of jewelry, is back in Cannes with swimming instructor Mario Michelucci - the man, she told the high court, for whom she left her husband. When she got to Cannes at the week - end, she lost a pearl necklace, but, she said last night:” That's nothing compared with my present happiness. / Bridgeman Images