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Like Gerhart Eisler, fugitive from U.S. justice and chief of propaganda for the Reds in East Germany, many a top German Communist spent the years of Hitler's ascendancy hidden away in hospitable Western countries. A few fled eastward to the purer atmosphere of Moscow. One of these was the recently appointed East Germany Party Boss Walter Ulbricht...
...charged last week with working with Field included dark, sneering Leo Bauer, boss of Radio Berlin; former SED Executive Committee Member Paul Merker, who spent the war years in Mexico; Lex Ende, onetime editor of Neues Deutschland, official party organ; Railways Boss Willy Kriekemeyer, and dapper little Bruno Goldhammer, Eisler's own second-in-command at the propaganda bureau. Though still at liberty and at his job last week, Gerhart Eisler, who was kicked off the Central Committee two months ago, was reported to be high on the list of those soon to be purged...
Last week Newsman Peet picked sides. At a press conference staged by Communist Propagandist Gerhart Eisler in the Soviet sector of Berlin, Peet charged the Western Allies and their press with "distortions" and "warmongering." Then he asked the Communist government of East Germany to let him stay there...
...students of the Communist conspiracy there is more to come. Scheduled for 1950-51 publication: books by Hede Massing, former wife of Gerhart Eisler, by onetime Communist spy Elizabeth Bentley, and by Whittaker Chambers...
...attorneys brought in witnesses to try to prove that Adler and Draper had supported a number of Communist fronts. They had performed for some, including the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, which had nourished Gerhart Eisler while he was in the U.S. and helped him in his escape to Russia. Ex-Communist Louis Budenz and two former undercover FBI agents testified flatly that they had known of Adler and Draper in the party as Communist entertainers...