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During my visit I, together with other invited American scholars, was shown the birthplace of Albert Ballin, the Hamburg ship-builder and adviser to William II, and the homes of the bankers, financiers and philanthropists Max Warburg and Karl Melchior — all three founders of numerous cultural institutions in Hamburg. In this Hanseatic harbor ci- ty where people have found an easy compromise between a veneration for tradition and for political liberalism, the re- cent surge of European anti- Semitism has been less manifest and certainly not as overt. And the students and faculty at the University of Hamburg, where I par- ticipated in a conference on authors and artists exiled from Nazi Germany, are not hesitant in recalling Nazi ter- rorism, perhaps because their memory is consistently jogg- ed by the name of their main library. It was named after Carl von Ossietzky, winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, and an early victim of the lethal bludgeons of the Gestapo. On a more individual basis a student of library science startled me by knowing in great detail the history of the Jews in her hometown, Lemgo, and the name of their historian, Karla Frankel Rahveh, now an Israeli. This spirit of both tradition and liberalism — for example Hamburg's past mayor, Klaus von Dohnany (brother of the Cleveland conductor), is the son of a resistance fighter ex- ecuted by the Nazis — might presumably have buffered the shock of the recent and inor- dinately sudden German unification. But Hamburg is as elated and troubled by the consequences of that historic event as the rest of Germany, East and West. The applaud- ed demise of a dictatorship and its oppressive rule is coupled with worries about the future. East Germans abounded in Hamburg during my visit; Dr. Stern fled Germany prior to World War II. He is a distinguished professor of Romance and Germanic languages and literature at Wayne State University and a board member of the Holocaust Memorial Center the border to the former GDR — the "gradually disappear- ing republic" as English- speaking citizens sarcastical- ly explained the acronym towards the end — is close by. Their sense of wonderment at the abundance and variety of consumer goods, which I observed in several small retail shops and in the huge department stores, are sometimes tinged with frustration and resentment. Frustration, because their limited pocket book restrains them from fulfilling many deferred demands; resent- ment, because they now realize, in retrospect, how ob- jectly they have played the role of step-children opposite their affluent West German brothers and sisters. But there is annoyance, if not resentment, among the citizens of Hamburg as well. Given the buying sprees of East German visitors, shelves are often empty and items out-of-stock. "Like locusts," I heard one Hamburg matron mutter, unable to get the right size casserole dish at Brinkmann's, a large glass, gift and porcelain store. Germany is elated and troubled by re-unification. It is precisely the daily microscopic event — small triumphs, annoyances and hidden fears — that affect Germans of all walks of life, but which don't surface much in the media. The media highlight, quite understan- dably, such global topics as re- educating the East Germans towards democracy, the near- bankruptcy of East German industries, the devastated ecology in the erstwhile GDR, the housing crisis in all Ger- man cities and — on the sports page — the migration of East German soccer stars to the West or the predicted triumphs of a united German team at the Olympics in Barcelona and Atlanta. Of course, each story is in- terspersed with anxious and recurring speculations: "Who will pay for all of this," link- ed inevitably to the can- tankerous answer that it will be, primarily, the West Ger- man taxpayer. But one Ger- man shop-keeper, a green- grocer, admitted to me sotto vocce what often is ignored in the newspapers: because of Continued on Page 12