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...minutes later, Wladyslaw Tykocinski, 44, approached a U.S. Army sergeant outside the snack bar of the nearby American-sector PX, identified himself as the chief of the Polish Military Mission to West Berlin, and asked for political asylum...
...liked to claim he was "a socialist but not a Communist." Nevertheless, he enjoyed the full confidence of his government, for the Berlin post was obviously a major intelligence center, and last year he was awarded Poland's Commander Cross for outstanding services. Outside the PX last week, he gave up his wife, his 17-month-old son, and the comforts and prestige of a successful diplomatic career for the uncertain life of an exile in the free world...
...PX. Much of the redistributed wealth turns up for sale in the Forcella district, a teeming complex of narrow streets known locally as "the Big PX." In Forcella, portable radios sell at half the normal price, and bargain hunters can pick up new and still-crated U.S. washing machines, refrigerators, stoves, dryers, electric razors, and about any brand of cigarettes known to man. Where does it all come from? A shopkeeper explains: "That's why it's so cheap. One shouldn...
...make up the difference by playing the black market. In some small towns, girls have organized to establish minimum rates. Groups like the Rose Association and the Reconstruction Association have instituted "pillow fees" ranging from $100 to $200 a month. But cash is not as important as PX privileges. Simply by reporting a readiness to get married, a G.I. can provide his moose with cigarettes, radios and cameras, all of which are resalable on the black market for several times their original cost...
Wolff's cooperation was well rewarded. Though he was technically under arrest, his impressed captors gave him the run of Gmunden, allowed him to live with his beautiful blonde wife and daughters, kept him well supplied with liquor, cigarettes and food from the PX -and even brought in his private yacht for pleasure cruises on Lake Gmund. At Nürnberg, Wolff sat out the trials as a prosecution witness, and in 1949 he was released...