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 * ... that in Ludwig Krug rendition of Adam and Eve (pictured), an ape mimics Adam eating the apple?
 * ... that Albert Einstein wrote to Joseph Petzoldt in 1914 that he had "long shared his convictions", after reading one of his philosophical books?
 * ... that the first public performance of the two songs of Arnold Schoenberg's Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1, was met with hostile audience reactions?
 * ... that Margaret Carroux German translation of The Lord of the Rings contains errors introduced by her editor?
 * ... that Samuel Kummer chose for his first recital as the organist of the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden music by Bach, Brahms, Max Reger, Louis Vierne, and himself?
 * ... that the Nazis killed more than fifty Dutch nationals in retaliation for the assassinations of Hendrik Seyffardt and Hermannus Reydon by the Dutch resistance?
 * ... that over the course of several decades, the missionaries of New Zealand's German Mission House failed to convert a single person?
 * ... that Peter Demetz, who taught German literature at Yale University from 1956 to 1991, was born in Prague where he was persecuted under the Nazis and escaped the Communist regime in 1949?