Word: einsiedel
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...Sexual Freedom. Poland, who now attends Merritt Junior College in Oakland, took the offensive for nudism by wading naked into the ocean at San Francisco's Aquatic Park last August with two beefy members of the off-campus San Francisco Sexual Freedom League, Ina Saslow and Shirley Einsiedel. All were arrested. The girls got suspended sentences, and Poland was sent to jail for five weekends...
...IRENE EINSIEDEL...
...third day his captors began an indoctrination in Communism. Von Einsiedel was not unwilling: he was only 21, had known nothing of politics but Hitlerism, and he was thoroughly disgusted with that. With very little urging, he agreed to write a letter telling his parents that he was all right and that he thought Hitler would lose the war. The Russians made it into a leaflet and dropped it over the German lines...
Between Two Fires. Von Einsiedel was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp near Moscow. There he found himself between two fires: the aimless cruelty of the Russians and the purposeful vindictiveness of some of his fellow Germans, who had heard about the leaflet and regarded von Einsiedel as a traitor. Wonderingly, not sure of his own motives, von Einsiedel felt himself pulled by the "magical attraction" of Communism's "well-knit, clear religion." He joined the small group of German officers, under Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, in the Russian-sponsored Committee for Free Germany...
...course of his work, von Einsiedel learned Russian, and traveled for thousands of miles in the Soviet Union. What he saw there, and at the "antifascist school" he attended for training as a revolutionary, slowly and painfully peeled the scales from his eyes...