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...would help uncover the identities of suspected tax dodgers. "It's a scandal that [the authorities] pursue every parking offender but not those people who evade paying up to $300 million in taxes," Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the Social Democratic Party, told the paper Hamburger Abendblatt. The German police union was equally adamant that moral concerns should be pushed aside. "The police work with criminals on a daily basis - we have paid informers who help us uncover drug trafficking or other crimes," Konrad Freiberg, head of the union, tells TIME. "Particularly with tax fraud, you'd never be able...
...worse was yet to come. On the other side of the world, in the offices of the German newspaper Abendblatt in Hamburg, system administrators watched in horror as the virus gobbled up 2,000 digital photographs in their picture archive. In Belgium ATMS were disabled, leaving citizens cashless. In Paris cosmetics maker L'Oreal shut down its e-mail servers, as did businesses throughout the Continent. As much as 70% of the computers in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden were laid low. The companies affected made up a Who's Who of industry and finance, including Ford, Siemens, Silicon Graphics...
...obscure Hamburg book publisher, Publisher Springer sat out World War II with a respiratory ailment and at war's end was among the first Germans to win an Allied license to start a magazine. With profits from Hör zu! he launched Hamburger Abendblatt, his first daily, in 1948, and five years later won out over 16 other bidders when the British decided to sell their occupation paper Die Welt (for an estimated...
...West Germany the Hamburger Abendblatt (circ. 310,000) prints daily reports of air radioactivity. Last week a banner headline screamed that the radioactivity of Hamburg's air had risen tenfold between July 3 and July 5. Not until the sixth paragraph did the Abendblatt's expert admit that the activity was still too low to do any damage whatever...
...Germany. As Hör zu! began paying off, he launched a woman's magazine, Constanze, which soon hit a circulation of 500,000, and Der Spiegel, a weekly news magazine. In 1948 Springer jumped into the daily newspaper field and made Hamburg's politically independent Abendblatt a leader in north Germany, thanks to his bag of circulation tricks (e.g., giving hundreds of flower bulbs to Hamburg children, organizing contests among radio hams and carrier-pigeon breeders...