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After two and a half hours, a stern-faced "Ike" and a smiling but silent Patton emerged from Eisenhower's office. They had nothing to say. But news soon popped in Bavaria: investigations, raids, hurried dismissals. Patton accepted the resignation of Minister President Friedrich Schaeffer and installed Wilhelm Hoegner, a veteran Social Democrat with a long anti-Nazi record. These overnight reforms notably failed to include the dismissal of George S. Patton...
...414th Infantry who found the Princess Hermine, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, living in Rossala, Germany, promptly presented her with a copy of TIME. She told them she "knew the magazine well, but hadn't seen it for a long time...
Confiscated also was all land owned by the Nazi Party, active Nazis, war criminals, Reichstag deputies under Hitler. Three days later Brandenburg and Mecklenburg followed suit. The land would be divided among the landless peasants, farm workers and refugee German farmers. Said Communist Party Chairman Wilhelm Pieck: the bloodless revolution may be completed by October...
...cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst Kalten-brunner, originator of mass execution by gas, and Albert Speer. the brilliant, ruthless organizer of German war production. Of the 24 not more than half were Prussians...
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...