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Several months after Roessler's disappearance, a bumptious little man wearing sideburns turned up in the West Zone city of Hanover. He was, he said, Franz Richter, Ph.D., a schoolmaster who had been expelled from his home in the Sudetenland by the Czechs. His papers had got lost on the long journey from the Russian front. During the war, he said, he had served as a Wehrmacht paratrooper in a company commanded by Captain Fritz Roessler. As Dr. Richter told it, Roessler had been killed in the Ukraine. He had personally helped bury him, and had promised to take...
...Right Seat. Impressed by Richter's Ph.D. and by his vigorous denial of Nazi sympathies, Hanover school authorities gave him a job as a mathematics teacher. Sure enough, he took good care of Frau Roessler-in fact, he even married his old captain's widow, and adopted her four children...
...Richter was soon showing distressing tendencies. He told his classes that Germany lost the war because Jews sabotaged the production of "new secret weapons." Yet he managed to wangle an appointment to the "school of democracy," run by the British Foreign Office at Wilton Park near London, for promising Germans. He was an apt pupil in the six-week course, but after he got back he sounded more than ever like an unrepentant Nazi. He was fired from his teaching job for "political indiscretions." Then he got into politics...
Captain Bob Richter kept the backboards all to himself as the winners piled up a 27-15 half-time lead. In the second half Dick Dollins poured in four field goals as Holworthy completely outclassed Wigglesworth. Dollins was the game's high scorer with 13 points, while Richter scored 11. Larry Kartiganer led the loser with eight points...
...Bill McColl* 225 6'4" Stanford (T) Jim Weatherall* 220 6'4" Oklahoma (G) Les Richter* 225 6'2" California (C) Dick Hightower 205 6'1" S.M.U. (G) Bob Ward 185 5'10" Maryland (T) Don Coleman 180 5'10" Mich. State (E) Frank McPhee 200 6'3" Princeton (B) Larry Isbell 180 6'2" Baylor (B) Hank Lauricella 170 5'10" Tennessee (B) Dick Kazmaier 171 5'11" Princeton (B) Ollie Matson 203 6'2" San Fran...