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...Eastern Junker Germany (to about 1,700,000 tons a year). Electric power output climbed 50% in two years. New hard-coal fields were opened, chemicals output went UP 30% and East Germany seemed on the way to becoming the most important industrial area in Europe after the Ruhr...
From Ostrava, in the Czech Ruhr, Nova Svoboda reported: "At Vaclav, Zone, Czechoslovak Pioneer Mines, Bohumin Iron Works and the Stalingrad Iron Works in Liskovec, some workers let themselves be misled by provocateurs in the service of the bourgeoisie . . . Considerable unrest and provocations took place . . . State and labor discipline was seriously disturbed . . . Loyal workers liquidated the subversive activities...
...were in the square, young people and old, Communist workers from the fringe of the Ruhr, solid Catholic burghers, even ten busloads of Dutch Protestants who had trekked across the border. They had come, as crowds throughout the length of West Germany have come, to hear the man who has variously been called the "Modern Savonarola," the "Red Father," sometimes the "Black Goebbels." They waited before a little open patch in the square in which stood a single microphone and an empty margarine crate...
WEST GERMANY, encouraged by the success of a $40 million trade compact signed with Red Bulgaria, announced "direct consultations" with the Kremlin; Ruhr manufacturers dreamed of the good old days when Hitler's Drang nach Osten sent 12% of all German exports off to the East...
...past, built French (and German) cannon. Unable to feed their blast furnaces with scarce and low-quality French coke, De Wendel and eight associates needed a more reliable "coal-base" for their steel mills. They bought out Flick, thereby making sure of 5,500,000 tons of Ruhr coal a year, about 5% of West Germany's total output...