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...such easy refuge awaits Frau K. She was conspicuous among those I saw; she carried no rucksack, she was well dressed, and her eyes bulged with fear edging on hysteria. She had traveled all day from a village north of Berlin where her husband is a physician. Dr. K., a Stalingrad prisoner, was released a year ago and soon resumed his old practice. The local MVD eyed his success and set their price. He was summoned and instructed to use his office as an intelligence center, to submit reports on all his patients, some of whom were suspected of being...
Died. Hedwig Pinkus Ehrlich, 84, tiny, unassuming wife of the late great German bacteriologist Dr. Paul Ehrlich, whose discovery of salvarsan or 606 ("The Magic Bullet") was a major landmark in combating syphilis; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Frau Ehrlich fled Germany...
Bechler's private life reads like the plot of a bad novel. After the Russians captured him at Stalingrad, he consented to go on the Moscow radio. Neighbors brought the good news to Frau Bechler: Bernhard was alive. Frau Bechler promptly denounced the neighbors to the Gestapo-for listening to the enemy radio...
...Joking!" At this moment, Frau Lehrte returned. She was a handsome woman of about 40, with a broad peasant face. She hurried up the street, glancing apprehensively at the crowd before her house. None of the neighbors spoke to her. Edward A. Morrow of the New York Times, who happened to be on the scene, walked up to her and asked: "Were you expecting a Russian officer...
Then a German police car and a U.S. MP jeep arrived (they had been summoned by an indignant neighbor who had finally decided to inform the authorities of the goings-on at Frau Lehrte's). The Russian jerked himself erect. Forgetting his motorcycle, he walked off in the direction of the Soviet zone. But when he saw a second U.S. jeep pull up, he ducked behind a tree, raised his rifle and fired four quick shots. German and U.S. police flung themselves behind the parked cars; the Russian slipped away. A German policeman, wounded...