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...Bayerische Motoren Werke in Eisenach, 50% destroyed by air bombardment, was turning out eight passenger cars a day against a prewar total of 45. August production goal is 250 cars: 200 for Russian reparations, 50 for Soviet and German zonal administration...
Into Merkers, an undistinguished vil lage about 15 miles southwest of Eisenach in mid-Germany, slogged the weary in fantrymen of Major General Herbert L. Earnest's 90th Division. Their job last week was the usual one of follow-through after Lieut. General George S. Patton's advanced tank forces: unsnarling knots of resistance, sorting out prisoners and slave laborers. Of the latter there were many for Merkers' big salt mines...
...stood a vast potential fifth column. Scattered throughout the Reich were some eight million foreign workers. To them last week went two calls from General Eisenhower's headquarters: ''Begin now to leave the factories . . . [but] do not be provoked by the Gestapo into unorganized action." In Eisenach and Dessau, French, Belgian and Dutch slave labor gangs barricaded themselves in their barracks, sang their national anthems. The SS apparently lacked the men to stop them. Elsewhere foreign workers were stepping up sabotage by slowing down production...
...Lutheran Church in China and Hungary, three able leaders of the Church in Germany and representatives of all but one U. S. Lutheran sect. They were delegates to the Lutheran World Convention of which Dr. Morehead has long been president. Having met in 1923 and 1929 in Lutheran strongholds-Eisenach and Copenhagen-104 delegates were in Paris last week for their third world meeting as a gesture of encouragement to France's minority group of 300,000 Lutherans...
Today Thuringia is one of the federated German republics. Nonetheless, Her Royal Highness the widowed Grand Duchess Feodora of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is still very much alive. Last week the Premier of Thuringia yielded gallantly to the regal Duchess who is 41. She sailed sedately into the Grand Ducal Mausoleum (where Poet Goethe lies buried near her husband) on the arm of no less a personage than the Chancellor of all Germany, pale, ascetic, thin-lipped Dr. Heinrich Bruning, 47. As Democracy thus squired Autocracy to the tomb of Genius, a witness was Comrade Anatoly Lunacharsky representing the Soviet Power...