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Confiscated also was all land owned by the Nazi Party, active Nazis, war criminals, Reichstag deputies under Hitler. Three days later Brandenburg and Mecklenburg followed suit. The land would be divided among the landless peasants, farm workers and refugee German farmers. Said Communist Party Chairman Wilhelm Pieck: the bloodless revolution may be completed by October...
Flush. In Missoula, Mont., John Brandenburg was jailed when he refused to pay a $5 fine and stubbornly flushed all his money - $1,055 - down a courthouse toilet...
...harvest. A winter of famine faced the Germans. Crop forecasts were 45% below normal, and even that figure might be cut by a shortage of harvest hands, sickles, binding wire. All political organizations, said the Berlin press, were helping to draft thousands of Berliners for the farms of Brandenburg...
...Marshal Georgi Zhukov, boss of Russian-occupied Germany, the Communist, Social Democratic and Christian Democratic parties offered candidates for the posts of president and vice presidents of the administrations of Saxony, Mecklenburg and Brandenburg in the Russian zone. In no case did the Communists, experts in back-seat political driving, propose one of themselves for president. They modestly preferred the vice-presidency. Promptly Marshal Zhukov accepted the candidates, who took office at once...
...President of Mecklenburg is Willi Hoecker (Social Democrat); of his three vice-presidents two are Communists. The President of Saxony is Rudolf Friedrichs (Social Democrat); his five vice-presidents include two Social Democrats, two Christian Democrats, one Communist. The President of Brandenburg is Dr. Arthur Steinhoff (Social Democrat); his four vice-presidents include one Christian Democrat, one Social Democrat, and two prominent members of the Free Germany Committee, Major Bernhard Bechler and Edwin Hornle, onetime Communist Reichstag deputy...