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oicism. It dealt essentially with kindnesses rendered by the Mayor to the personal of the Bauhaus during the period ^from 1925 crossed outin whichcrossed out when still under the directorship of ??, the school was moved to Dessau and 1932 when it was ^permanently closed by the Nazis, and the Mayor was put on trial to answer for his friendliness. Mies was in Berlin at the time, trying to obtain permission to reopen the school there, and was called to Dessau to testify in the case of the Mayor. "I kept trying to think of what I could say to help him," Mies recalled. "There was one thing I could have said but I just couldn't remember it until I was on the train going back to Berlin. I could have kicked myself!" The anecdote turned up now and then, in moments of confidence, and for years I pitied him for ^so distancing a memory lapse and for the naggings of conscience which crossed outso evidentlycrossed out seemed to torment him. Much later, however, I could not believe any longer in Mies as capable of any scruples whatever.