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When German Industrialist Friedrich Flick reached his 80th birthday this month, he celebrated by donating more than a million dollars to charity and scientific research. Flick's generosity is one result of a remarkable accomplishment: the reconstruction of his personal fortune. Just 13 years after his release from Landsberg prison, where he served five years of a seven-year term for using Nazi slave labor in his factories, Flick once again heads Germany's biggest and most powerful industrial empire. He controls an interlocking maze of 156 companies in autos, steel, chemicals and paper whose annual sales total...
...PAULINE LANDSBERG North Bergen...
...conquered countries and exploiting slave labor. Alfried was sentenced to twelve years in prison and forced to forfeit his property, the only property seizure of the war crime trials; his directors got sentences ranging from two to twelve years. The head of the Krupp empire went off to Landsberg prison, where he washed dishes, did laundry, worked in a blacksmith shop (one product: a crucifix for the prison chapel), and ordered his days to the sound of the bugle and whistle...
...distinguish him above all others sentenced by the Nurnberg courts." He therefore ordered Krupp's property returned to him though Krupp later had to sign the Mehlen Accord which split up his empire. On a foggy February morning, after six years in prison, Krupp walked forth from Landsberg prison, went off with brother Berthold to a champagne breakfast in a nearby hotel. Said he to correspondents: "I hope it will never be necessary to produce arms again...
KTLA's General Manager Klaus Landsberg was amazed when the mail brought 20,000 Marco cards before the first program. After the show he began to get telegrams and calls from other TV stations asking how to set up the game. Commented Los Angeles Mirror TV Columnist Hal Humphrey gloomily and probably accurately: ". . . Intuition and past experience with the sheeplike tendencies of TV program directors lead me to believe that we haven't seen the end of it, only the beginning...