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Richard Hottelet, arrested March 15 by Berlin Gestapo agents on charges of spying for an "enemy power," was tossed into a tiny, grim cell in Alexanderplatz prison, deprived of even his eyeglasses "to prevent suicide," left strictly alone for three days-"the hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer...
...Germany the Bavarian Soviet toppled, while little girls of 12 solicited openly on the Alexanderplatz, and in the dead of nights, whose terror exceeded anything known in the U.S. since Indian days, good citizens heard the shuffle of marching feet and voices singing...
...murdered by the command of Communist party leaders." On the strength of this testimony Epstein and Ziegler were sentenced to decapitation. No effort was made to hush up the fact that Hero Horst Wessel, far from disliking women as has been suggested, kept a buxom mistress, Lucie of the Alexanderplatz. Also cleaned up last week was the biggest high treason trial ever held in Germany, with no defendants. German papers reported the trial only on the first day. After that Communist defendants by the dozens began retracting confessions of treason which they dared to accuse Nazis of having exacted from...
...January 1930, Horst Wessel and his mistress, a streetwalker known as Lucie of the Alexanderplatz, took rooms in a boarding house on the Frankfurterstrasse. The landlady, a Communist in good standing, tipped off her friends. That night a group of men tiptoed up to Horst Wessel's door. When the door was opened, a volley of pistol shots cut him down...
...Communists, are Peter Stoll, tailor; Solly Einstein, painter; Hans Ziegler, barber. Object of the trial is not only to chop the heads off Peter, Solly and Hans, but to produce witnesses who will swear to the upright and lofty character of Horst Wessel and Lucie, once of the Alexanderplatz...