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...Spiegel was created in 1947 as a publication loosely patterned after TIME, but it soon changed into a Teutonic version of Confidential magazine. Editorially, it stood against almost everything and for almost nothing-except, perhaps, recognition of East Germany, which it has frequently proposed. Never particularly friendly to the U.S., Der Spiegel blasted President Kennedy's action on Cuba as hypocritical, weak, and an incitement to thermonuclear...
...West German officialdom, from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on down. No one was shelled more ruthlessly than Franz-Josef Strauss. From the day in 1956 that Strauss took over the Defense Ministry and boasted that Germans would never again play "foot soldiers to the American atomic knights," Augstein and Der Spiegel attacked. The magazine jeered at inconsistencies in Strauss's defense policies. It sneered when Strauss arrogantly pulled rank on a West German cop who stopped the Defense Minister for a minor traffic offense. It accused him of helping a friend land juicy contracts for the construction of U.S. military...
Thus gored and goaded, Strauss struck back. Three times he filed defamation charges, and with some effect. Just last week, a parliamentary investigation committee cleared Strauss of Der Spiegel's claim that he had helped his friends get housing contracts. But by that time, Der Spiegel had said something far worse about Franz-Josef Strauss...
...cover story on Bundeswehr Inspector General Friedrich Foertsch, Der Spiegel reviewed September NATO military exercises, reported signs of chaotic neglect in West Germany's civil defense organization, and argued that the country's NATO troops were in a dismal state of unpreparedness. Practically all Der Spiegel's evidence was classified "top secret," a fact duly noted by West German Acting Federal Prosecutor Dr. Gerhard Wesgram in Karlsruhe...
...Wesgram was required to investigate, and he did. When NATO headquarters in Paris reported that Der Spiegel had indeed divulged secrets, Prosecutor Wesgram drafted arrest orders charging Augstein and other Spiegel staffers with "suspicion of treason," "treasonous falsifications," and "active subornation," or bribery. Then Wesgram spread his dragnet...