
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 8, 1994                   TAG: 9404080094
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: FREMONT, NEB.                                LENGTH: Short

PAINTING OF NAZI STIRS ANGER

Jeanna Orduna insists she loves her small college. She just doesn't understand its refusal to remove a painting of Nazi Heinrich Himmler from its library.

Orduna said Wednesday she got a cool reception when she asked that Midland Lutheran College remove the painting of Himmler, who headed the Nazi Gestapo, or secret police, during World War II.

"They would shout things to me about the First Amendment," Orduna said.

The painting was done by David Amland, now of Carmel, Calif., when he was on the Midland art faculty in the mid-1960s. He said Thursday that he was surprised by the controversy.

He said the painting, titled "In Heinrich's Study," was intended to make people reflect on the nature of evil. The 5-by-5-foot painting shows Himmler sitting in a chair and wearing a swastika armband.

by CNB