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...mine uranium-bearing pitchblende, the Russians are using tens of thousands of Germans, draftees (i.e., slaves) and volunteers. This week from Leipzig an A.P. correspondent reported on the primitive conditions under which the pitchblende miners work in the Erz Gebirge (ore mountains) of Saxony. They carry the pitchblende to the surface in crude buckets attached to winches. In one shaft workers must climb up & down a 500-ft. ladder. The whole area is under heavy guard. Once in the mine area, even volunteer miners may not leave. The pitchblende is flown direct from Saxony to the Soviet Union...
...Russian zone, "recruitment" sounded like the draft. In Leipzig, Saxony and the Berlin area several hundred men got a note from the Soviet military administration "At 0800 hours, June 15, you will report at with two blankets, underwear and two days' food. Your relatives can reach you through Field Post...
...plotters certainly had enough rank to excite an OSS agent: the ringleaders were Colonel General Ludwig Beck, onetime German Chief of Staff, and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, onetime mayor of Leipzig. Among the men indirectly involved were Field Marshal von Kluge, the Western Front army chief, and Field Marshal Rommel. (Says Dulles: Beck, Kluge and Rommel subsequently died violent deaths; the ex-mayor was executed...
Conductor Munch, a well-set-up 55, is an Alsatian who learned conducting from Wilhelm Furtwangler in Leipzig. In 1938 he became conductor of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris' oldest symphony orchestra, soon had a following of hundreds of French women who bought season tickets for concerts of "le beau Charles," without even caring what he was to play. The Conservatoire directors cared, though. They admitted that he got brilliant tone quality out of his musicians, but they did not share his enthusiasm for contemporary music. Three months ago the directors ordered him to conduct more familiar symphonies. Munch...
...materials in Germany's Soviet zone. (Excerpts from a long bill of particulars: V-weapons are being made at Sömmerda near Erfurt, at Halle, at Nordhausen and in the South Harz; fuel for V-weapons at Leuna; aircraft at Gotha; machine-gun parts at Leipzig; tank chains at Plagwitz; Red Army uniforms at Plauen...