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...Landsberg prison, Germany, Willi Frey, 23-year-old SS man, showed that he had learned something from the conquerors. "I will go to the gallows singing Give Me Five Minutes More and Open the Door, Richard!" he had boasted. But Willi had not learned much...
Last week, as he and 47 other convicted Nazis walked to the black-curtained scaffolds in the sun-washed courtyard, Willi whispered: "I am dying like Jesus on the cross . . . without fault...
...million impoverished Chinese in that area of west central China. Like most of his colleagues, he expected to find changes. "Once our white faces and 'high noses' were enough," he said. "Now we will have to be known for what we are." Said Willi C. Newbern, 46, who first went to China in 1925: "I expect there will be a certain disillusionment with Christianity. Missionaries are not perfect, but we tried to live model Christian lives. Some of the American pilots . . . well, it was probably a reaction to the experiences they had undergone...
...Bessler textile factory in Gera, managed by 46-year-old Willi Huhne, who held the same job through the Nazi era, was turning out from 2.4 to 2.6 million yards of cloth as against 3 million yards in prewar years. Sadly Huhne watched a machine turning out cloth with Stalin's picture on it, said he still favored private enterprise...
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...