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...German troops occupied Norway, and Brandt fled again, this time to Sweden. He returned to Norway after the war and began a career in the Norwegian foreign service with a posting to Berlin as a military press attache. In 1947 he reapplied for the German citizenship the Nazis had stripped from him. "During my time 'outside,' I did not for one moment cease to regard myself as a German," Brandt later wrote. When his citizenship was restored in 1948, Brandt went to work as an aide to Ernst Reuter, the colorful mayor of West Berlin, and from that vantage point...
...Social Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, losing both times in brutal campaigns in which opponents sneered at his origins -- the mighty Konrad Adenauer called him "alias Herbert Frahm" -- and criticized him for fleeing Germany before the war. Pictures of Brandt wearing a Norwegian uniform were handed out by his Christian Democratic rivals, and at one stop in the 1965 campaign a heckler hoisted a sign reading WE SHALL NOT VOTE FOR A TRAITOR. The harsh campaign and even more bitter second defeat were too much, and for the next three years Brandt virtually withdrew from public life...
According to police, the three studentsaccosted the Norwegian-born Raustein and fellowMIT students Arne Fredheim in front of the HaydenLibrary on the MIT campus...
...march, which started at Rindge and Latin, ended with a presentation of a statement of sympathy signed by high school students and faculty to the Norwegian consulate...
...They bear no ill feelings toward the schoolsor the city itself," said Norwegian ConsulateTerje Korsnes, who has talked to the victim'sfamily everyday since the murder. "They arecomforted by your expressions of compassionthrough it all," he told the growing crowd...