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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misery. Many are agricultural laborers from the East's rich farmlands, who cannot find work in the Western industrial economy. West Germans bitterly resent the refugees, accuse them of taking away their jobs and living space. Most refugees are herded into dirty, former Nazi camps, like the one at Dortmund which townspeople ironically call "Sing Sing...
...harbored in the Western zones," live in "wild camps" which are little more than mud holes-simply because there is no more room for them in the regular camps. Among the refugees, Communist agitators are busy extolling the glories of East Germany which they have left behind. Cried one rabble-rouser in a speech at Wiirzburg recently: "We have only one road-back home, barefooted and in our underclothes...
...half as well as they did in 1936; most refugees live half as well as the West Germans. Old residents and refugees alike are incited by the spectacle of a few rich postwar profiteers who careen about the countryside in fine American cars and gorge on expensive delicacies. Said one German publisher as he watched a group of such well-fed Burger in a garish Frankfurt cafe: "This country is partly a whipped-cream paradise, but mostly a poor farm...
...West Germans that they would be better off united with their Eastern brothers. Communist agents whisper into the eager ear of discontent: "Just wait until we come." A heavy rattling of the Russian saber last week reinforced that whisper. Moscow, it was reported, was sending Marshal Ivan S. Konev, one of Russia's top military men, to head its Eastern zone army...
...often said that capitalism must assume "social responsibility." Actually t his party's attitude toward labor is still undefined. Many of West Germany's industrialists, who generally support Adenauer, do not like the innovations-profit-sharing plans, management-labor councils-which the military government introduced. Sighed one union leader last week: "Capitalists in the U.S. are so much more farsighted in their labor relations than our bosses...