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Another defendant. Artur Harder, a clerk in the Krupp truck factory in Frankfurt, was accused of having helped Heuser tie victims to a stake, "pour fuel on and light the living sacrifices." Harder said that he was kept so busy cremating bodies in a special incinerator he had devised that he had been able to take off only two days for his honeymoon. Following Harder's testimony, the judges cleared the court of school-age children, apparently on the theory that they were getting too vivid a picture of Nazi horror...
...Frankfurt, Germany...
Meanwhile, the Soviets stepped up their harassment of Allied traffic to West Berlin. A U.S. troop convoy was held up on the Autobahn; three times in two days Soviet MIG fighters buzzed unarmed Allied planes in the 20-mile Frankfurt-Berlin air corridor. Said one Western official: "It's part of what we call their 'weekly reminder' that they're around. They don't like too much time to go by without letting us know they still have a grip on Berlin...
...chairman pointed out that the free world already has more than 100 organized markets in which international corporate securities can be traded. Though mostly small by comparison with the great stock exchanges of London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and New York, he said, "even the smallest provides a nucleus for bringing together the technical skills and understanding required for intelligent investment and efficient distribution of the shares of the worldwide corporation...
...starred try at moviemaking. "I didn't even get to meet a beautiful movie star,'' he recalls ruefully. He also branched into banking, partly to finance a chocolate stockpile for Oetker-packaged puddings, took over Hermann Lampe, a private bank, and Frankfurt's Braubank. The latter's big holdings in beer companies put Oetker in the front rank of West German brewers...