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...already in custody-Dr. Gustav Scheel, former Nazi Gauleiter for Salzburg, who was one of seven ex-Nazi bigwigs jailed by the British last month on charges of "plotting to regain power" in West Germany. Among those newly arrested are four of the known leaders of the Freikorps Deutschland, a semimilitary, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-Masonic organization that was formed in 1951. The jailed leaders: Hermann Lamp, an unreconstructed ex-SS sergeant; Helmuth Beck-Broichsitter, onetime major in the Grossdeutschland Division, who is also the chairman of a strutting veterans' organization called Bruderschaft; Alfred Frauenfeld, pre-Anschluss...
...doomed men in a death cell, the puppet rulers of Communist East Germany had waited for weeks, desperate to know which of them had been named for sacrifice. Last week one of them (perhaps only the first) found out. An eight-line announcement in East Berlin's Neues Deutschland said: "State Security Forces . . . arrested Georg Dertinger, Foreign Minister." Dertinger was accused of "hostile activity against the German Democratic Republic . . . carried out under orders from imperialist spy services...
Under the headline LESSONS DRAWN FROM THE SLANSKY TRIAL, the official organ of the East German Communist Party, Neues Deutschland, indicated that some other victims are being spotlighted. Among them: Kurt Müller, a West German Communist accused of "contacting foreign Trotzkyites like Ruth Fischer" (Eisler's estranged sister), and Paul Merker, who is a Jew, charged with "harboring the Zionist viewpoint" and acting like "another Slansky." The accusations suggested that Jewish Communists with Western, and particularly U.S., "connections" would be used as scapegoats for East Germany's economic woes. The role seemed tailor-made for Gerhart...
...engineering works in East Berlin, Communist inspectors reported: "Working according to schedule is an extremely rare event . . . An average of ten substandard cylinder heads has been made for every one that was up to standard." At the huge Iron Works East at Furstenberg on the Oder, reporters from Neues Deutschland, official organ of the German Communist Party, found Foreman Horst Kewitsch angrily complaining: "Serious ... is the lack of replacement parts. To keep working, we have had to replace parts in Furnace Two with parts from Furnace Three; now, we have to replace the missing parts from Furnace Three with parts...
...German Premier Otto Grotewohl himself admitted that "capitalist elements have succeeded in disrupting the population's food supply." His government last week closed its state-owned groceries in East Berlin to prevent "enemy agents" (i.e., West Berlin housewives) from buying up the rations of the hungry Communists. Neues Deutschland ominously pinned the blame on "the kulaks" (i.e., richer peasant farmers). "They are intensifying their fight against the might of democracy," the Communist paper wrote, "assaulting organizers of collective farms, sabotaging their delivery quotas and not paying taxes...