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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger is questioned by a panel of newsmen...
...23rd anniversary of Warsaw's uprising against the Nazis during the occupation. On hand to preside was Police Chief General Tadeusz Pietrzak, who rammed through a resolution that said, "the rulers of Israel have now allied themselves to the most reactionary neo-Hitlerite circles in the German Federal Republic"-a bit of the absurd more likely to confuse than rouse any anti-Semite left in Poland. Undaunted, the opposition to Gomulka continued to stand firm. Last week a top Polish army general, Ignacy Blum, was fired for refusing to pass anti-Semitic literature along to his troops. Another measure...
Jewry," he cries. "Let me speak to you of my Fuhrer with love. He who answered our German need. He who res cued us from the depths . . . His power lay in the love he won from the people . . . Do I see you begin to raise your hands? Do I hear you stamp your feet. He gave us our history. He gave us our news. He gave us our art. He gave us our holidays, he gave us our leisure, and he gave our newly-married a copy of Mein Kampf. At the end we loved him . . . With the killers...
Nowhere did Germany's famed-if now faded-postwar Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) shine more brightly than at Krupp. Under expansive, gregarious Berthold Beitz, whom Krupp brought in as his general manager in 1953, Krupp returned to the very top rank of German industrial companies. Sales have tripled since 1944 to last year's $1.35 billion, and the 3,000 items Krupp produces include almost everything but armaments, which Alfried banned...
...Unfortunately for the company, that was about the only Krupp tradition he forsook. Because the third or fourth generation Kruppianer might be turned out of work, Krupp refused to close down money-losing locomotive works and coal and steel operations. The resulting debt of $600 million-highest of any German company-gave the edge last spring to the bankers, who then, in effect, ordained the end of the House of Krupp. Alfried's death was thus only a postscript...