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| title: | Herman Wells arrested in Berlin |
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| image number: | P0031151 |
| description: | Cartoon depicting the arrest of IU President Herman B Wells in East Berlin. Wells tells of this incident on pages 314-315 of his book "Being Lucky: Reminiscences & Reflections" (IU Press, 1980) which we quote here, in part: "I had an unpleasant brush with the Russian military. On one Sunday afternoon, Peter Fraenkel and I had driven into the Russian sector of Berlin to deliver a C A R E package to Peter's childhood nurse...Enroute home...we saw a brightly lit shop in the otherwise dark Potsdamer Platz...I asked our driver, P F C Wade Ferris, to take us over to see what was going on. Later we learned that it was a fence run by Russian soldiers for antiques taken from German houses. All innocent, Peter asked a Russian soldier nearby if the store was open. The soldier shook his head and, as Peter returned to the car, detained us with an order to halt, reenforced by a gun...The soldier accused us of driving round and round Potsdamer Platz taking pictures in a manner unfriendly to the Soviet Union. Though it was evident that the charge against us was fabricated because we had no camera, it was two hours before we were released into the custody of an American Military Police captain." |
| date taken: | 1948 |
| photographer studio: | Knecht, Karl Kae (as artist) |
| photographer studio: | Evansville Courier |
| accession number: | 7590 |
| copyright owner: | Evansville Courier |
| use restrictions: | Any and all requests for the use of this image should be made to The Evansville Courier. The IU Archives can provide the image, but only after approval has been given by the Evansville Courier. |
| personal name: | Wells, Herman B "Hermie" |
| topic: | Soldiers |
| topic: | Communism |
| topic: | Cartoons (Working drawings) |
| topic: | Drawings |
| topic: | Caricatures |
| city: | Berlin |
| state: | Germany |
| other place name: | Russian Sector |
| other place name: | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| other place name: | Sovet Union |
| other place name: | Postsdamer Platz |
| series: | Individuals |
| subseries: | Wells, Herman B |
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