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Goodman started out his activities with a visit to the "House of Youth" on the Alexander Platz, where he was questioned by officials of the F. D. J. (Free German Youth). He was told he would be screened and could come back the next...
...group of Soviet-zone Volkspolizei, with police dogs, had just arrived at the Potsdamer Platz. Their mission: to prevent Germans from the British sector from distributing leaflets in the Soviet sector. As the four U.S. buses slowly circled the Potsdamer Platz, the tense Volkspolizei were facing a scornful West Berlin crowd safe behind the border rail of the British sector. A bus tourist, Charles Myers of Kansas City, tried to photograph the scowling Volkspolizei. The police spotted him, rushed to stop...
Another Western device for exposing Communist tyranny was brilliantly successful last week. The West Berlin Publishers' Association erected on the Potsdamer-Platz a crude copy of the N.Y. Times electric news sign. The sign was in the British sector but it faced the Russian sector. Hundreds of East Berliners gathered across the Potsdamer-Platz to read unadulterated news. Enraged Communists turned fire hoses on the sign, then tried vainly to blot it out with strong searchlights. East Berliners went right on looking at the news. Sample bulletin: "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer labels Soviet-zone elections a fraud...
...Throw Them Out." Such teaching produces the hooligan bands that raid Western Berlin and smear Communist slogans on the walls. It organizes the grinning gangs that stand on Potsdamer Platz and chant songs about how the FDJ would throw the "splitters of Germany" (i.e., the Western Allies) out of Berlin...
...other balefully. Half a million German comrades paraded in the Soviet zone, held high the images of their master Stalin. Three-quarters of a million gathered in the Western zone to cheer anti-Communist speakers. Between opposing camps ranged a thin line of police and occupation troops. At Potsdamer Platz, demonstrators surged from the Allied toward the Soviet sector, hurling stones at its police, shouting "Black SS!" and "Communist pigs!" They were promptly dispersed by West German police...