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...changed to probation), her hatred of Nazis grew even greater. She and her law-student husband, whose father died at Auschwitz, began to compile dossiers on unpunished German war criminals. In 1971, Beate launched almost singlehanded a campaign to catch and arrest "the Butcher of Lyon," ex-SS Captain Klaus Barbie, who had fled to Peru, then Bolivia. Released from jail several months ago, he is now free in Bolivia...
Like many another middle-income West German, Klaus Gördel sought to put his savings in a bank that would pay the most interest. So several months ago the 45-year-old government official switched his life savings of $12,000 from a government-owned bank to Bankhaus I.D. Herstatt KGaA, one of the country's largest private banks, with 31 branches chiefly in the Rhineland city of Cologne. Last week Gördel and thousands of other Herstatt depositors had their dreams, and quite possibly their savings, wiped out in the most disastrous German banking collapse since...
...Gold was arrested by the FBI and confessed to having ferried classified information from British Scientist-Spy Klaus Fuchs, as well as from other informants, to an official in the Soviet consulate in New York. Sentenced to 30 years in prison and paroled in 1966, Gold was a key Government witness in the Rosenberg trial...
West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütz had another explanation for Honecker's charges and the rise in the exchange requirements. "East Germany," he said, "just does not seem to be able to cope with détente any more...
...after a web of plots and counterplots, the mission fails, and Annalise decides to go home again and keep her mouth shut about her wicked stepfather. "God damn you!" cries Thorpe, who is facing a murder charge on her account. Everybody loses, concludes Hunt, "except Klaus Werber, who was, as the saying went, home free...