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...from Nazi Germany to the French puppet government at Vichy, onetime professed pacifist and champion of Franco-German solidarity, whose prewar activities in France, e.g., bribing writers and newsmen, helped reduce French preparedness during the gathering storm; by flames in the interior of his Volkswagen after a crash near Dusseldorf, which also killed his wife. Abetz was tried as a war criminal in 1949 and sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. Freed in 1954, he avoided politics, worked as a freelance writer on economics...
Some foreign investors pass up the stock market, buy up large amounts of marks. Said a Dusseldorf banker: "The other day a Norwegian walked in with 2,000,000 DM he had bought and asked us to keep it until the day when it might suddenly become a much larger sum." Throughout the world, foreigners who have bought goods from West Germany are paying their bills with unaccustomed haste to beat any possible revaluation, and sellers to West Germany are letting their debts go in expectation of revaluation profits...
With that hunk of metal, on display at the International Foundry Fair in Dusseldorf this month, German steelmen aim to impress the world with the rise of their industry. Since 1950, German steel production has increased 76%. In 1954 it surpassed the previous 1938 peak. Last year Germany nosed out Great Britain, became the world's third largest steel producer (after the U.S. and Russia...
...DUSSELDORF, Germany, Feb. 5--West Germany embarked today on a vigorous drive designed to counter the Soviet bloc's economic overtures in Asia and Africa...
...live, eat and sleep reunification," is somewhat surprised to see that the average West German today is living a hyperactive life of his own, eating generous helpings of Wurst and Sauerkraut, and sleeping very well. The "German economic miracle" has been somewhat over-emphasized, but as one walks down Dusseldorf's Konigstrasse or Munich's Kaufingerstrasse it is obvious that the German is again living very well. And it is not difficult to understand that after five years of war and ten of rebuilding, he is very loath to give up his present prosperity...