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...Died. Theodor Plievier, 63, bestselling German author, renowned for his three World War II novels describing the fighting on the Russian front (Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin); of a heart attack; in Avegno, Switzerland. Plievier turned to Communism shortly after World War I, wrote several anti-war novels in the early 19305, fled to Russia to become an official propagandist when the Nazis came to power. Disillusioned with the Soviet Union (although not with theoretical Communism), Plievier took refuge in U.S.-occupied Bavaria...
...city of shadowy relationships and shifting allegiances, no one worried too much about his past. It was known that he was born in Poland, that his father had been an officer of the old Austrian Empire's army and a comrade-in-arms to Austria's President Theodor Korner. A cultivated man, Dr. Sokolowski speaks excellent Russian, German, Polish, French and English, a valuable asset in a city quartered between four languages. For his services to Austria, he got Austrian citizenship in 1945, became chief interpreter for the Vienna city council...
MOSCOW, by Theodor Plievier, was certainly the most memorable book of the year about World War II, a flaming near-documentary about German victory and defeat in Russia...
They had gathered to heckle a speech by Theodor Blank-the man who is scheduled to be Defense Minister when West Germany gets an army-and they succeeded. Blank finally retreated behind a police guard, his speech undelivered. As he did so, a wineglass flew through the air and shattered on Blank's face...
Adenauer had hand-picked Theodor Blank to organize Germany's new army precisely to avoid the traditional working-class hostility to the army. No heel-clicking, stiff-backed militarist, but an ex-union official who still speaks in the pawky idiom of the Ruhr workman...