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...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...
...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...
...fantastic career. He taught philosophy at St. Martin's College (enrollment: 277) in Olympia, Wash. He was reported in Los Angeles as "Dr. French." He spent a year at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary as an orderly, shuffling dinner trays and bedpans, under the name of Cecil Boyce Hamann (actually the name of a science professor at Asbury College in Kentucky...
Tired of ward routine, Demara took to religion again. Shuttling back & forth across the Maine-New Brunswick border between two religious houses, he met the real Dr. Cyr and won his confidence. "Dr. Hamann" never betrayed himself in his medical shoptalk. At St. Romuald in Quebec, "Dr. Hamann" became "Brother John." But almost at once, he ran away and signed on with the R.C.N...
...international civil servants were perturbed by the state of the world. Denmark's Ole Svend Hamann showed a surrealist living room with a man sitting beside a radio, reading a newspaper. From his pipe rises a mushroom-shaped atomic cloud. "What is a home?" reads the picture's caption. "An island of peace where the native language is that of affection. But what alien shapes are created by the invasion of newsprint and airwaves...