Word: maeder
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...happy that in his new West German home in Oberhausen, Baden, Subscriber Maeder will now be able to enjoy reading the world's news each week...
...days ago I received an interesting letter from one Kurt Maeder. a political refugee from East Germany. Maeder wanted to reinstate a TIME subscription which he had bought back in 1946 when he was a German prisoner of war in Fort Meade, Md. The subscription was interrupted when he went home to Soviet-occupied Germany...
Even as a P.W., wrote Maeder, one of the things he remembered about life in America was the freedom to read: "I remember my time in America, where most of my comrades who were able to read your language studied your magazine. In Europe we don't have magazines giving in a brief and attractive way news about political and economic events in the U.S. and abroad . . . Copies of TIME are highly valued behind the Iron Curtain. Single copies are sold for as much as 25 marks in East German Currency. That means half the amount a common worker...