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German nationalization began with Bismarck, continued through the Weimar Republic and reached its climax in the Third Reich, which organized such huge enterprises as Volkswagen and the Salzgitter steelmaking complex to equip the army. Not a single firm has been nationalized since the war under the Christian Democrats. But still left over from the old days is a $2.5 billion government stake in companies that account for 40% of West Germany's iron ore production, 70% of aluminum, 60% of electricity and 80% of soft coal. In 1959 the government finally sold off to 216,000 German buyers...
Even the Senile. Hefelmann testified that his euthanasia group, dubbed the "Reich Working Committee for Cure and Care Institutions," was headquartered at No. 4 Tiergartenstrasse in Berlin, a title that for secrecy's sake was shortened to "T-4." There was housed the massive bureaucracy that set up carbon monoxide chambers at an in sane asylum and other isolated institutions around Germany-all dedicated to the task of eliminating the weak from Hitler's society. Questionnaires went out to every mental hospital in the nation; doctors were required to designate for T-4 all schizophrenics, mongoloid idiots, microcephalies...
...PETER A. REICH (M.I.T...
...that has failed to recover from World War II is the one in which pre war Germans placed their greatest pride: the aircraft industry. Germany's famed planemakers, who once turned out 48,000 aircraft a year and employed 1,000,000 workers on behalf of the Third Reich, found peace something of a burden. They have developed no important new aircraft, employ only 32,000, and are facing their biggest post war crisis in the phasing out of their contracts to produce Lockheed and Fiat fighters for the German Air Force. But the industry is struggling against...
...Nazi past have an embarrassing way of cropping up to haunt officials in high places. Often they are gleefully generated, replete with whiffs of Zyklon B gas and the ring of SS jack boots, by East Germany's Communist propagandists, who hold the most comprehensive set of Third Reich records. Frequently the Bonn government ignores the East German charges-and rightly so, for many of them are phony. But now and then, Bonn has been guilty of undue laxity. Not so last week, when two more ghosts loomed up from history. This time Chancellor Ludwig Erhard dispatched them with...