Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down went Kurt Schumacher's name in the Nazis' black book. The day of reckoning came in March 1933. By that time, the Socialists were meeting clandestinely.; those in danger of arrest were told to find sanctuary in Prague. Schumacher would not go. Four months later, in a hideaway in Berlin, he heard the expected knock on the door. The Gestapo took him to the Heuberg concentration camp near Stuttgart. Schumacher coolly calculated thaO he would be in jail eleven years (he reckoned that by that time the Third Reich would have fought and lost...
...line-up in Dachau one morning, the Nazi guard ordered the sick and disabled to form on the left, the able-bodied on the right. An instinct of danger swept over one-armed Kurt Schumacher. He stepped to the right and marched off with the ablebodied. The men on the left were never seen alive again. By 1943, so ill and ravaged that the Nazis set him free to go home to his sister's in Hannover to die, he was a pitiful walking cadaver, with ulcers, yellowing stumps for teeth, flickering eyesight. Schumacher still carried...
...Communists clustered around Kurt Schumacher like hummingbirds around a morning glory; some were friends from Dachau days. They wanted a SocialistCommunist coalition which would make Berlin plumo for their plucking. Inside the party, a wing led by Otto Grotewohl, who had sat with Schumacher in the Reichstag, argued for the coalition. After all, they said, Communists and Socialists are ideological brothers. "Yes," Schumacher would reply, "like Cain & Abel." He detested the Communists as much as he had the Nazis, and blamed their war against Socialists in the Weimar days for Hitler's rise to power. Even Western occupation officials...
Doctor's Verdict. But Kurt Schumacher was bound to resist the West, too. Speaking with the defiant snarl that often makes his mildest statements sound like ravings, reacting violently where a milder response might ease his way, he has made it hard for Westerners to trust him. In speech after speech, he attacked the West -first for having no policy, then for adopting a policy he did not like...
...more Kurt Schumacher's body failed, the stronger grew his will. From his bed, as from a throne, he dispatched lieutenants, issued orders, and whipped the Socialists into the most militant and best organized party in West Germany. He rose from his sickbed in time to campaign -workers wheeled him into meetings and carried him to the rostrum on their shoulders. His physical courage inspired his followers; his violence inflamed them. The Socialists polled nearly 7,000,000 votes. But it was not quite enough. The Christian Democrats polled slightly more. Not to Kurt Schumacher, the fierce and dedicated...