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...aged 13 to 17. "They've recruited surgeons to do the job of butchers," complained one Harvard Ph.D. The most basic problem, though, was that the students knew little English and the teachers less German. "You should have known that you would have to teach in German," declared Wolfgang Neckel, superintendent of schools. "If I went to America, I would certainly be expected to teach in English...
...month later, however, following pressure from the West, I was allowed to sign a power of attorney for no less a person than Wolfgang Vogel, the lawyer who arranged the trade of U-2 pilot Gary Powers for Soviet master spy Abel, and who had defended many notorious Nazi concentration camp butchers and the like. But even then the Secret Service lieutenant waited until the end of eight hours of interrogation, called the guard to take me away, and then at the last second rushed around the desk to have me sign lawyer Vogel's power of attorney...
...during the third day of our march towards self-destruction, a dramatic change came. The prison officials backed off and gave in. We were rushed up to Berlin where Wolfgang Vogel sped us James Bond style in his pastel blue Mercedes across a secret checkpoint to transfer us to black State Department limousines with British military escorts. We had been saved by the signing of the Berlin Pact! A week after starving and thirsting on the dimly lit floors of Bautzen work camp, we were heading towards the nearest Hofbrauhaus to get rid of that thirst with a couple...
...WOLFGANG K. HERRMANN New York City...
...analysts argue that he was pressured by the Soviets into moving aside. According to that line of reasoning, Moscow grew weary of Ulbricht's obstructionist tactics, which hampered Soviet attempts to capitalize on Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik in order to secure Russia's western flank. Wolfgang Leonhard, a visiting professor at Yale and former ranking East German ideologue, who knows both Ulbricht and Honecker, leans toward the theory that old "Spitzbart" (meaning pointed beard) was nudged. Leonhard, a former aide of Ulbricht's, notes that the Soviet press has recently slighted Ulbricht to an astonishing...