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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...information obtained from refugees and from well-concealed underground sources in the Soviet zone. Three weeks ago Linse gave the West German newspapers his latest data on East zone rearmament. The secret Communist price on Linse's head was believed to be comparable to that on Dr. Theo Friedenau, founder of the Free Jurists, who has escaped several abduction attempts himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Reds Remove a Thorn | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...sharpest thorns in East Germany's Communist hide is a 14-month-old underground organization directed from West Berlin. The Investigating Committee of Free Lawyers of the Soviet Zone was founded by Dr. Theo Friedenau, 39-year-old lawyer, who has a 500,000 East mark Communist price tag on his head. His organization of 3.000 East German lawyers, judges and public officials exposes Soviet zone perversions of justice and tries to frighten Communist officials by reporting their crimes to Friedenau in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Like Notes from a Flute | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Friedenau keeps the ever-mounting score for future retribution, never stops telling the Reds about it. A constant flow of warnings from, his typewriter penetrates East Germany. Before the zone's rigged October election, the underground blanketed the countryside with posters and carefully documented pamphlets blasting Red nominees as crooks and stooges. Bald, professorial Lawyer Friedenau, whose black sideburns reach almost to his chin, boasts that as a result of underground activity 70% of East zone finance offices recently refused to enforce Communist directives expropriating business enterprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Like Notes from a Flute | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Last week, Friedenau got his best chance yet to nail Red lies when the East German Communists imprisoned seven Thuringian bank officials after a trial at Erfurt on trumped-up charges of "sabotage." Friedenau knew all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Like Notes from a Flute | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...defendants got sentences of from two to 15 years, but East and West Germans, thanks to Perscheid and Friedenau, got a detailed picture of the dress rehearsal for the frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Like Notes from a Flute | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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