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...students crowded about the Ann Arbor dormitory that winter night in 1947 were in a boisterous mood. They had cut off the dormitory's electricity were shouting up at a second-story window and bombarding it with snowballs. Their target: Communist Gerhart Eisler, guest of Michigan Youth for Democratic Action...
Inside, Communist Eisler turned to the group of "progressives" and student reporters about him. "This is just like Germany under Hitler," he said, shaking his head piously. "I fought for freedom in Europe and will fight for it wherever I am. All I want here is what is every man's right-a chance to explain my views...
Students in the room listened rather sympathetically. Two of them-Sophomores Don McNeil and Al Blumrosen-never forgot Eisler's words. They thought of them three weeks ago, when they read that an East German student named Hermann Josef Flade, 18, sentenced to decapitation for distributing anti-Communist posters, had defied the Russian zone court with the cry: "I love freedom more than my life...
Last week, McNeil and Blumrosen, now graduate students at Michigan, wrote Gerhart Eisler, who is now a big shot in East Germany, a letter...
...Gerhart Eisler...