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...little village of Bebenhausen, in the French zone of Germany, Herr & Frau Stuckebrock lived a quiet life. Stucke-brock, 51, plowed and planted part of a onetime German Army parade ground nearby. His wife made Christmas tree decorations and other knickknacks from colored paper and pine cones. One night last week, a group of U.S., French and German police aroused them at midnight. Stuckebrock leaped for his coat. A German policeman stopped him before he got a poison vial. Under guard, the two former Nazi leaders were taken away...
Under his real name of Colonel General August Heiszmeyer, Stuckebrock had been head of the "Ubergestapo"-the Supreme SS Tribunal, the Gestapo of the Gestapo. As Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Frau Stuckebrock was Hitler's No. 1 Nazi woman, director of all the women's organizations in the Reich. According to Nürnberg's war criminals' list, Heiszmeyer was "presumed dead," Scholtz-Klink was "dead." Witnesses had "identified" her body among those removed from Hitler's Berlin air-raid bunker...
Phillips Brooks House reopened its textbook library, where 25 cents will rent anything from "Frau Sorge" to "Symbolic Logic." The books, all second-hand, are housed on the third floor...
...Frau Bracht counted in thousands the "international marriages" she had arranged. Said she: "The cream of German life-writers, scientists, actors, professional people from every walk of life-want to marry foreign girls." Marriage was a way of escaping Germany's chilly ruins. One of Frau Bracht's crisp slogans put it simply: "Marry and Emigrate...
...Frau Bracht knew that "Turk, 47" would draw many eager applications from German women. There were calls for German men, too. "Brazilian girl, 27" and "Hungarian girl, 23, relatives in South America" were looking for husbands last week. The price: 500 marks down and 500 upon marriage. For an extra 100 marks, applicants could attend the "social evenings" to dance, sip red wine, cocktails and gaze at prospective partners...