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...ponder the latest news of the Red assault on religion in East Germany. In Chemnitz last week, Pastor Werner Gestrich was sentenced by a people's court to twelve years at hard labor for anti-state "utterances." In Martin Luther's Saxony, Communist papers have accused Bishop Hermann Müller of preventing youngsters in a church home for crippled children from joining a Red youth group -and have demanded that the church home be "placed in the hands of the state." Just so, in the recent past, did the Communists launch their campaigns against the churches...
...bigwigs jailed by the British last month on charges of "plotting to regain power" in West Germany. Among those newly arrested are four of the known leaders of the Freikorps Deutschland, a semimilitary, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-Masonic organization that was formed in 1951. The jailed leaders: Hermann Lamp, an unreconstructed ex-SS sergeant; Helmuth Beck-Broichsitter, onetime major in the Grossdeutschland Division, who is also the chairman of a strutting veterans' organization called Bruderschaft; Alfred Frauenfeld, pre-Anschluss Nazi leader in Vienna; Eberhard Hawranke, ex-Brownshirt...
...system of hunting is to grub about on foot with small whistles that imitate the cries of a rabbit, and then to pounce on the fox. They appealed to Herr Hans Lieberkuehn, Wolfenbüttel's local hunt master. Herr Lieberkuehn dug up a law drafted by Hermann Göring (who liked to hunt with falcons) which prohibited riding to hounds...
...there" is an unfriendly place for other reasons. Even at 70,000 ft., an altitude already reached by man-carrying planes, cosmic-ray particles still have much of their tremendous original energy. The heavier ones, as yet ungentled by^ the atmosphere, says German Biophysicist Hermann J. Schaeffer, can plow with destructive force straight through a plane's fuselage and on through the human body. An hour's exposure might permanently damage bone marrow and reproductive organs...
When the Nazis were about to draft young Paul into a labor corps (rebuilding bomb-prone factories), Skoda assured the head of Vienna's Academy of Music that a (fictitious) letter of recommendation was coming "any day" from Hermann Goring; Paul was accepted by the academy. Before the next summons came, Paul was already lodged with a friendly farmworkers' corps near Vienna; he did most of his digging in the scores of Mozart and Beethoven. He gave his first recital in Vienna four years ago, then gradually began to make his name as a soloist and chamber musician...