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...Dresden last week a youthful hot combo was interrupted in mid-rehearsal and threatened with dire consequences if caught playing Western jazz a second time. In Cottbus, Communist police confiscated a stack of Western dance records and sent their owners to jail for two days. But the East German who was called upon to pay the piper most heavily for not calling the Communist tune was Egon Sander of Pirna. Last week Egon was dragged off the floor of a Pirna restaurant, sentenced to two years in prison for dancing the samba. The dance, said his Communist judges, was "endangering...
Even more heart-warming to Conductor Busch, who 17 years ago took a stand against Hitler and consequently lost his job at the Dresden Opera, was the fact that in Cincinnati he found "community expression in the best sense of the word. Boys & girls, old ones and young ones, even the little kids, all join together and they don't bother about the races. Yah," says Fritz Busch, "it is great...
...plain, 30-year-old Ralph Kastner did not have much use for his father. Socially and politically, father Hermann was an opportunist. After Ralph's mother had divorced him in 1944, father Hermann managed a retrial which declared his wife guilty, hounded her and their daughter out of Dresden. When he married again, Hermann chose blowzy, peroxide-blonde Trude Mirtsching, a stenographer with excellent Soviet connections. A year later, conniving Hermann had worked up from a minor political boss to be Deputy Chairman of the Economic Commission, forerunner of the East German government...
...Bags of Candy. Meanwhile, son Ralph plugged away at his puny post in the Dresden Volkssolidarität (People's Solidarity), a Communist welfare organization. Life was hard for Ralph Kastner, and twice Hermann helped him out. The day before currency reform, Hermann gave Ralph 1,000 marks; next day the value of the money was cut 90%. Once when Ralph pleaded that his children needed help, Hermann sent his chauffeur around with two bags of candy...
...telephone: "What do you say to the starvation rations in the Soviet zone? How can you reconcile it with your conscience that tens of thousands of innocent people . . . are kept in prison and tortured to death . . . I suppose I could have told you all this in Dresden, but then your wife, Trude, what with her excellent connections with the Soviet authorities, would have seen to it that I wouldn't have had the chance to flee to West Berlin...