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...year-old Pfaelzische Volkszeitung, published in the West German city of Kaiserslautern (pop. 62,000), last week inserted in its regular German edition a special English-language, eight-page section for the 6,000 airmen, soldiers and their families stationed in the area. The paper will be put out once a week. Explained an editorial in the first issue: "[This newspaper] is being published by Germans, for Americans. It is not only for soldiers but also for the housewives, the children and the families . . . It should help to transform coexisting people into neighbors and to have the Americans walking among...
Next day, a front-page editorial in Berlin's Communist Deutsche Volkszeitung warmly spoke up for those who had joined the Nazi Party merely out of opportunism...
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...
Died. Ludwig Lore, 67, veteran labor editor, Socialist leader; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Editor of the New Yorker Volkszeitung from 1919 to 1931, he joined the Communists after the Socialist Party split in 1920, helped frame the Communist Party platform, was thrown out by the Communists...
Abruptly the Jewish organ Danziger Echo was suspended for ten months. The only other Opposition organ still appearing, the Catholic Volkszeitung, was wiped out for printing a letter from Danzig Bishop Edward O'Rourke in which he wrote: "The Senate has made war on all the Free City's Christians. I appeal to all Catholics to rally around the clergy...