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Political Failure. By its action, the Cabinet hoped to transfer the guilt to the men and women who actually committed the crimes. "The main problem," explained Justice Minister Horst Ehmke, "is freeing our people from its spiritual complex." Though the Germans had failed politically in the 1930s and '40s by allowing a "crew of murderers" to gain rule of the country, Ehmke argued, political failure should not imply national complicity in the crimes of the Nazis. "But," he warned, "this process of acquitting our people can only be successful when the murderers within our people are brought to justice...
REMBRANDT PAINTINGS by Horst Gerson. 527 pages. Reynal in association with William Morrow...
This year's Rembrandt book. The text by Art Scholar Horst Gerson is for the most part mercifully purged of art history jargon. Eighty big color reproductions (book size: 14¾ in. by 11¼ in.) have been carefully printed to reduce the yellow cast of ancient varnish that customarily obscures Rembrandt's backgrounds. The result, though it sometimes gives the impression that the paintings have just been overzealously cleaned and scraped, offers a rare chance to linger over details normally lost in murk. Weight: 10½ pounds...
...operating inside its borders, has long been considered NATO's weakest security link. But even the most cynical were soon fascinated, for Ludke's death marked the beginning of an astonishing wave of suicides among government officials. On the day of Ludke's death, Major General Horst Wendland. 56, deputy chief of the Federal Intelligence Service, Bonn's equivalent of the CIA, shot himself in his office. The government explanation: he was despondent over an "incurable depressive illness." On Oct. 15, a promising young official in the Economics Ministry hanged himself. On Oct. 16, a woman...
Died. Major General Horst Wendland, 56, No. 2 man in West Germany's Federal Intelligence Service; by his own hand (he shot himself three months after learning he had an incurable disease); in Pullach, West Germany. Quiet and unassuming, "the house father," as his staff called him, was an able administrator who supervised the service's more than 5,000 employees and directed its intelligence training...