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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist prestige was at low ebb in Western Germany. Yet in Düsseldorf last week a grinning, pinch-faced Stalinist with silver-grey hair was carried like a hero on the shoulders of a cheering, surging mob. He was Max Reimann, Communist boss of Western Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Do Your Best, Max! | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Early this month, 5,000 Reds had jammed Düsseldorf's Rheinhalle for an anniversary rally. Reimann, an able rab-blerouser, harangued them for 2½ hours. He denounced the Ruhr statute as a means to "dismember the heart of Germany and make dollar slaves of German workers." He shouted: "German politicians who today cooperate with the occupation forces under the Ruhr statute should not be surprised if they are considered quislings by the German nation." Then Reimann added that those who cooperate "may one day have to face reprisals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Do Your Best, Max! | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...brisk little Bavarian delegate proposed that delegates from Berlin be invited as "guests and advisers." Before a vote could be taken, Reimann was on his feet again. "Zur Geschäftsordnung" (Point of order), he yelled, but was ignored. His face turned red, his grey hair flopped about wildly. "Traitors! . . . Stooges! ... Well, in a few months there will be no assembly, there will be none of you . . . der Tag is coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Berlin to Bonn | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...formal, orderly vote was taken on Reimann's motion to abandon the assembly; all voted against him, except his one fellow Communist. Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer, Cologne's ex-mayor and one of Germany's most respected public figures, took over as chairman. Said he: "A start must be made so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Berlin to Bonn | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Reimann broke in once more: "Free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Berlin to Bonn | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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