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...night of Friday, October 26, security police sealed and began to search the offices of the news magazine Der Spiegel in Hamburg and Bonn. The magazine's editor-and-chief Rudolf Augstein and several Der Spiegel executives were arrested and jailed. Simultaneously, Spanish police arrested Conrad Ahlers, one of the magazine's assistant editors, in Madrid. These arrests aroused immediate public outcry against the Gestapo-like violation of freedom of the press...
Although the government explained its sudden action on the grounds that Der Spiegel had committed treason in publishing secret information on the performance of German troops in NATO exercises last September, other less honorable motives were immediately apparent...
...years members of the Adenauer government, especially Franz Josef Strauss, Minister of Defense, and Walter Strauss, a secretary of state in the Justice Ministry, have been under heavy fire from Der Spiegel, which expresses views held by the government's more conservative coalition partners, the Free Democrats...
...them, their imperious execution was strictly the work of Prosecutor Wesgram. At week's end, Augstein was still behind bars, where he can legally be held without bail until his trial, which may be months away. But from his cell, Augstein blithely sent out orders to boost Der Spiegel's press run from the usual 500,000 to 850,000. The magazine also filed a complaint in Federal Constitutional Court against the government's highhandedness. In Bonn, Defense Minister Strauss kept mute...
...Spiegel stood accused of what were indeed serious offenses. But however richly the publication may have merited government action, most Germans were shocked by police-state tactics wholly repugnant-and wholly unnecessary-in a democratic society...