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Surrealist Heinz Troekes, 37, is now in Paris on a grant from the French government. His Blind City looks like a nightmare view of Berlin, and though it lacks the comparison evident in Hofer's Houses, it is equally haunting. When he finishes a painting, Troekes says, he is "always quite startled and in a new world. In that world everything is quite natural for me. If it's not natural, the picture goes into the wastebasket...
Margarete Buber, once a Communist who could point to an eleven-year record of toeing the party line, began to get into trouble with the U.S.S.R. in 1931. That year, her common-law husband, top-ranking German Communist Leader Heinz Neumann, dared to say no when Stalin asked: "Don't you think that if [Naziism] came to power in Germany it would be so much taken up in the West that the Soviet Union could develop in peace and build up Socialism?" Booted out of his high party post, Neumann was assigned to a round of minor party chores...
...Author Buber gives no details of Heinz Neumann's role in the German Communist party (and in the Comintern) before his fall from grace. Other ex-Communists, writing books of their own, have told more. In Out of the Night (1941), the late Jan Valtin described him as "the ruthless Heinz Neumann," chief of the anti-Nazi division of the German Communist party, who once, in ordering a strong-arm demonstration, told Valtin: "Ich will Leichen sehen" (I want to see corpses...
...four months he had had in his possession the complete Communist file of the evidence, prepared by the trial's original prosecutor, handsome, 34-year-old Heinz Perscheid, who fled to West Germany last August rather than proceed with the case. Perscheid's dossier was dynamite. It proved that the Red's judicial masquerade was staged to smash the Liberal Democratic Party, to which the defendants belonged, because it had refused to collaborate with the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party. Perscheid had received special tutelage from Fritz Lange, chairman of East Germany's State Control Commission. Perscheid...
...Three top competitors: Heinz, Beech-Nut and Clapp...