Word: hamann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner was he freed than he resumed his career, took the name of one Dr. Cecil Hamann, studied law at night at Northeastern University in Boston for a year, then joined another Roman Catholic order, the Brothers of Christian Instruction, in Maine. The brothers warmly welcomed such an esteemed professional as "Dr. Hamann." dubbed him Brother John. As Brother John, he met a young doctor named Joseph C. Cyr, helped Cyr treat a member of the brotherhood for rheumatoid arthritis (bee venom, suggested Ferdinand with professional aplomb...
...Karl Hamann, a grimly handsome gentleman farmer and a leader in the Liberal Democratic Party in the Russian zone, made his choice when the Russians set up the East German "Democratic Republic." He decided to play along, and was made Minister of Trade and Supply...
...chest. Such adventures embarrassed his government. His pretty wife saw the signs, urged him to flee before it was too late. "I have a clear conscience," he told her. "I will stay. There is still justice here." A few weeks later, in the winter of 1952, Minister Hamann was arrested, accused of creating the food shortage and having "criminal relations with imperialist agents...
...wife escaped to West Berlin and broadcast appeals to friends in East Germany for help. Reports reached the West that he had tried to commit suicide in his cell. Last week, 19 months after his arrest, the East German news agency, A.D.N., announced that Dr. Karl Hamann had been sentenced to ten years' hard labor in a Communist prison. The charges: having "systematically sabotaged the supply of foodstuff for the population...
...first head fell quickly. Dr. Karl Hamann, 49, Minister of Trade and Supply, was sacked and jailed for "bad and bureaucratic work"; his assistant, Rudolf Albrecht, State Secretary for Food, was denounced as a "saboteur." Next in line were "a number of leading bandits" responsible for the "month-by-month decline" in coal production. Then the accusing finger pointed at Gerhart Eisler, the shifty little Comintern agent who jumped bail in the U.S and escaped to East Germany on the Polish liner Batory. There he became Chief of Information (i.e., Propaganda) in Soviet Germany. "A basic change [is needed...