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They have insisted, therefore, on treating the East German regime as a pariah and its leaders as outlaws. They still refuse to speak of "the German Democratic Republic," and refer only to "East Germany" or the "Soviet zone." In 1953 the Eastern city of Chemnitz was renamed Karl Marx Stadt, yet this change is still not acknowledged in the West. The West Germans have made use of television broadcasts which can be received in the East to propagandize against the Communist government...
...Near Chemnitz, in the highly sensitive Saxony uranium mines area, where not only Soviet troops but the Soviet MVD mount stringent guard, workers rose up and destroyed mining facilities. Apparently thousands joined...
Lenin had his Leningrad and Stalin his Stalingrad. Last week Karl Marx got his grad, with a German accent. To celebrate the 135th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, East Germany's Red rulers bestowed a dubious blessing on the smoke-begrimed industrial city of Chemnitz (pop. 550,-ooo), admitting as they did so that there was "great opposition." Henceforth, 800-year-old Chemnitz would be known as Karl-Marx-Stadt...
...burghers of Chemnitz, the new honor was not to be had cheaply. Sample show of gratitude: workers in one factory "volunteered" to honor Karl-Marx-Stadt by clearing rubble from the streets for 720 hours without...
...longer take their church and their faith for granted. The Lutheran fortress is under sharp attack. As Otto Dibelius prepares to mount the pulpit in the Marienkirche for his Easter-Sunday service, he can ponder the latest news of the Red assault on religion in East Germany. In Chemnitz last week, Pastor Werner Gestrich was sentenced by a people's court to twelve years at hard labor for anti-state "utterances." In Martin Luther's Saxony, Communist papers have accused Bishop Hermann Müller of preventing youngsters in a church home for crippled children from joining...