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Egyptian generals and Cabinet members in the early 1960s knew Wolfgang Lotz as a wealthy German horse breeder with an engaging habit of sending champagne and other lavish gifts to well-placed friends. They thought of him as an ex-Wehrmacht captain in Rommel's Afrika Korps who later made a fortune in Australia. Some whispered that he was actually a former lieutenant colonel in Hitler's dread SS who had joined Egyptian intelligence...
...astonishment of his Egyptian friends, the rusty-haired Lotz was disclosed in 1965 to be an Israeli spy. Lotz's explanation was persuasive enough to save his life. He joined the Israelis, he said, because they had threatened to reveal his Nazi past to the Bonn authorities. Besides, there was the convincing detail that he was uncircumcised. The court let him off with a 25-year sentence, and only three years later Lotz and his German wife Waldrud were turned over to the Israelis in an exchange of prisoners. Along with nine Israeli captives, the Lotzes were swapped...
Last week Israeli officials allowed the full extent of Lotz's subterfuge to be revealed by official sources for the first time. Far from being an ex-Nazi soldier, Lotz was a Jew, an Israeli citizen and an officer of Israel's army. He was born in Germany in 1921, to be sure, but emigrated to Palestine with his Jewish mother in 1933. He later spent seven years in the British army (including four in Egypt, where he learned fluent Arabic). He served in the Sinai campaign of 1956 as the commander of an Israeli infantry company...
Sportier Company. "Volkswagen can afford to offer several lines," says Kurt Lotz, the elegant and imposing VW chairman. The line-up now stretches from sub-beetles to Mercedes-sized sedans. Auto Union's new Audi 100, an 80-h.p. model that sells for $2,223, has surprised Wolfsburg executives by competing strongly with the 411, VW's stolid, 68-h.p. entry in the medium-priced market. The basic beetle, which still accounts for nearly two of every three VW sales, is about to get some sportier company. In February, VW entered a joint development venture with Porsche; soon...
...year, thus improving resale value. Last spring, his own Wirtschaftswunder long since accomplished, Nordhoff announced that he would retire at the end of 1968, and in a typically efficient manner said he intended during his last months at VW "to put my house in order." He thereupon groomed Kurt Lotz, former chairman of a Mannheim electrotechnical firm, as his successor. Last week, upon Nordhoff's death, Lotz immediately took over the Volkswagenwerk...