Word: reimann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East and West, evacuation of all occupation armies and a 50-year trade pact with Soviet Russia. No taint of Communist sympathy motivates Hausleiter & friends; they are German nationalists who believe that they can make Germany strong by making a deal with Russia. They put the smile on Max Reimann's face. They are bringing Karl Radek...
Reluctant Witnesses. The British authorities could not tolerate this sort of intimidation. They decided to bring Reimann to trial for "encouraging discrimination against Germans who cooperate with the Allies." But they failed to police Düsseldorf's courthouse adequately and the Reds went into their act; they turned the hearing itself into a propaganda demonstration...
...hundred of them-pimply youths, tough thugs, wild-eyed women-poured into the courthouse lobby and up the stairway and massed outside the courtroom. When Reimann appeared they howled an ovation. "Do your best, Max!" said a pink, pudgy hausfrau: "Just the way it was with Hitler-first he was sentenced to jail, then he became our Führer. I wonder if this won't turn out the same...
Pleading that he had not had enough time to prepare a proper case, Reimann's defense counsel asked for a postponement. The British magistrate granted it with alacrity. The only recording of Reimann's remarks at the Rheinhalle rally-a wire recording made by Northwest German Radio-had been "erased" (demagnetized) to make room for something else. The non-Communist German reporters who had heard his harangue were reluctant to testify...
...Reimann's henchmen were fined $150 and $90 for holding a political meeting without a permit. When the day's hearings were over, Reimann was carried off in triumph by Reds who sang the Internationale and shouted: "Down with the Ruhr statute-down, down, down!" A rueful Briton admitted: "It looks as if the trial is backfiring...