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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: You'll Hear From Me | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: You'll Hear From Me | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...Days of Sick Leave. Hermann Kastner heard from Ralph sooner than he had expected. That night Ralph, broadcasting over the U.S. radio station in Berlin, told Hermann a few of the things he had not got around to on the telephone: "What do you say to the starvation rations in the Soviet zone? How can you reconcile it with your conscience that tens of thousands of innocent people . . . are kept in prison and tortured to death . . . I suppose I could have told you all this in Dresden, but then your wife, Trude, what with her excellent connections with the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: You'll Hear From Me | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...weather after a hundred miles or so, but in the first hour of flight both radio and magnetic compasses went haywire. The plane, far off its course for The Pas, flew in a great parabola through icing conditions. Finally, Chief Petty Officer Jack Kastner came down on a strip of muskeg between two lakes. Not a man was scratched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Unscheduled Flight | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...boiled a ground squirrel shot by Kastner. It made one meal. Then Scalise found mushrooms and boiled them. Custer was sure they were poisonous, but Scalise dropped a silver coin into the brew and when it stayed shiny, instead of turning black, Custer was satisfied. Scalise shot a porcupine. Says Custer: "It was a lovely dish-we had it for days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Unscheduled Flight | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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