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...Hermann: "What are you going to do about...
...jury of his constitutional peers had acquitted Dr. Hermann N. Sander of murder, but a jury of his professional peers last week decided that he was unfit to practice medicine. Meeting in the New Hampshire State House at Concord, the State Board of Registration in Medicine "indefinitely" suspended Dr. Sander from medical practice in the state by revoking his license, with the proviso that after two months he might apply for reinstatement...
Pale, plain, 30-year-old Ralph Kastner did not have much use for his father. Socially and politically, father Hermann was an opportunist. After Ralph's mother had divorced him in 1944, father Hermann managed a retrial which declared his wife guilty, hounded her and their daughter out of Dresden. When he married again, Hermann chose blowzy, peroxide-blonde Trude Mirtsching, a stenographer with excellent Soviet connections. A year later, conniving Hermann had worked up from a minor political boss to be Deputy Chairman of the Economic Commission, forerunner of the East German government...
Last fall the new East German government made Hermann a Deputy Prime Minister. Trude was delighted. She made no secret of her ambition to be the First Lady of Germany. The high point for the Kastners was a Russian invitation to a vacation in the Crimea...
...Bags of Candy. Meanwhile, son Ralph plugged away at his puny post in the Dresden Volkssolidarität (People's Solidarity), a Communist welfare organization. Life was hard for Ralph Kastner, and twice Hermann helped him out. The day before currency reform, Hermann gave Ralph 1,000 marks; next day the value of the money was cut 90%. Once when Ralph pleaded that his children needed help, Hermann sent his chauffeur around with two bags of candy...