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Among the Germans: Paul Wandel, editor of Berlin's Communist newspaper Deutsche Volkszeitung; Willi Schroeder, onetime Communist deputy in the Mecklenburg provincial government, Edwin Hörnle, oldtime Communist leader and Reichstag deputy; Eugene Schiffer, 85, Liberal Democrat and once Reich Finance and Justice Minister; Dr. Wilhelm Fitzner, Social Democrat, a lawyer who had served a three-year term in a concentration camp; Dr. Ferdinand Friedensburg, 58, Christian Democrat, former Berlin police official and ex-head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; Helmut Lehmann, Social Democrat, freed from a concentration camp by the Russians last April...
...Communists, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) and one newcomer, the Liberal Democrats. In a manifesto calling for a "liberal ideology and conception of the state," the Liberal Democrats took up a Weimar Republic tradition. The new party's leaders included two aged democrats: Eugen Schiffer, 85, a Weimar Minister of Finance and Justice; Dr. Wilhelm Külz, 70, former Bürgermeister of Dresden and Weimar Minister of the Interior...
Because of the rapidly rising anti-Jewish sentiment, Schiffer was urged by friends to quit the country before it would be too late, but he decided to remain. Two weeks after he made this decision, the first great program came...
...Schiffer declared that it was the Secret Police that were responsible for cruelty of the Nazi regime. "They are beasts," he said. "No one can imagine what they can do. No count has been made of the thousands of innocent people mercilessly killed...
After his release from the concentration camps, Schiffer was transported through a large number of state prisons. He was imprisoned in Vienna during the terrible day of November 9, 1938, when thousands of Jews were tortured at the hands of the "Nazi beasts." He considers the days of horror during this raid as the most terrible of his life...