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...Liebenau traveled to Berlin's East Zone about once a month. "This was easy," he says, "as long as I didn't have any papers saying I go to the Free University of Berlin. If I did, I might get on the 'Black List;' then crossing would be dangerous...
Carl M. Sapers '53, chairman of the Council's International Student Activities Committee, said the main purpose of the exchange program is to "bring over potential student leaders for a year and then return them." In order to get a full picture of American student life. Liebenau will work for a short time with most student organizations...
There is a scholarship fund set up by the U.S. High Commissioner in Germany which screens applicants. From such a list, the Free University of Berlin's Student Government picked Liebenau. Harvard waived his tuition charges, the Council provided spending money, and the High Commission supplied travel expenses...
...Liebenau said German youth after the war wanted to make up for the education they missed. The Nazis had employed one-sided instruction, orientation of all, and selection of the most devoted. "But soon after the universities were reopened in the Soviet zone the same principles in modified form were applied by the Soviet authorities. Now you no longer have to prove your Aryan ancestry, but instead you must establish descendant from proletarians...
...elected student representation is permitted in the Soviet zone any more. Thus many try to study in the Western zone, "but membership in a Western University makes then dangerous to the Communist regime." Liebenau cited the case of one friend of his who was a student in West Berlin's Free University and re- turned for a weekend to the Soviet none...