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...Central Office cross index turned up the grisly testimony of a witness at the Nurnberg trials who recalled that one "Obersturmjührer Georg Heuser" had poured gasoline over a dozen Jewish prisoners and burned them alive at Minsk during the war. A series of leads sent investigators to Koblenz, where they found Heuser, now boss of the criminal police for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. He had risen with the aid of forged documents...
...Names. Last week Heuser and 13 fellow Nazis were on trial in Koblenz for the slaying of 70,000 gypsies, Jews and Russian peasants; Heuser alone is charged with the murder, by shooting, gassing, burning or live burial, of 30,356 people in the Minsk region between 1941 and 1944. On the witness stand, Heuser's voice was shaky as he recalled one of the massacres. "It was like automation. Somebody shouted: 'There's one still alive!' I shot. And then I continued to shoot...
Centuries of Bad Dreams. Later that same year, at Mainz, De Gaulle declared: "We proceed from the same race; we are Europeans, men of the West. How many reasons for us to stand by one another henceforward!" In another speech at Koblenz, he added: "Time will go by and wounds will be healed, but the wounds are deep and the healing time will be long." At a gala gathering in Freiburg, De Gaulle summed up his thoughts...
...Lacking first-line hotels, nightclubs and airport, it is often jeeringly called "the federal village." The streets are cobbled, narrow, picturesquely obstructed by vegetable markets and, at one conspicuous intersection, by a medieval gate that funnels all traffic into a single lane. The main rail line between Cologne and Koblenz runs smack through the middle of the town, and for 20 minutes of every hour the guardrails are down, halting all traffic as the trains shuttle through...
...psychological problems of creating the new German army were unique. Though it was to be a democratic army, its first officers obviously had to be veterans of the old Wehrmacht, nearly all of whom had been willing Nazi servants. Strauss set up a special "Inner Leadership" school in Koblenz where the officers were shown movies of Nazi atrocities, given handbooks on democratic treatment of subordinates. The government provided elaborate legal safeguards for the new soldier's rights and easily accessible channels through which he could air his citizen gripes. A West German soldier is told: "A command must...