Word: magdeburg
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...same way at Wolfgang Fritsch's house. As he and his wife switched off the radio and went to bed, he muttered: "It's happened. It's happened." Next morning, at the Agfa plant, the uranium pits, the dockworks at Rostock, the heavy-machinery works in Magdeburg, at the center of Red Berlin, all across the country, the hatred and yearning exploded into the bloody rebellion of June...
...Near Magdeburg, 6,000 workers in a rayon plant milled around the plant shouting slogans, had to be dispersed with rubber truncheons and fire hoses. Twelve thousand workers of the Karl Liebknecht heavy machinery plant, marching on the city, were confronted by Soviet troopers who fired over their heads and by Volkspolizei who fired directly into the mob. Five fell dead. Before they gave up, the strikers released 20 political prisoners from the jail, wrecked Red trade union headquarters...
Then the convention elected Ollenhauer to succeed Schumacher as head of the party. A Socialist since his teens, Ollenhauer was born (1901) the son of a Magdeburg mason, and he came up the party ladder during Weimar Republic days. He fled from the Nazis, first to Prague, then to London, and returned home in September 1945. Pudgy, bespectacled, pipe-smoking Ollenhauer has little of Schumacher's tigerish fire, but he is just as stubborn...
...September, 1926, a wealthy industrialist named Rudolf Haas was arrested in Magdeburg, Germany, charged with murder. He was later released and his honor restored when another man, one Richard Schroeder, was found guilty of the crime. In 1947, a German film company took this incident and with the superb acting for which German motion pictures have always been noted, used it in an excellent film, "The Affair Blum," as a focus for the anti-semitism in the German character which Hitler later worked up into the frenzy of Nazism...
...hand at U.S.-style journalism. In Berlin in the '30s, he worked for topflight foreign correspondents. But the Nazis blamed Schuley for feeding "undesirable news" to the outside world, arrested him and later "retired" him to hunting rabbits on his family's 3,000-acre estate near Magdeburg, now in Russian hands...