Word: george
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puppet rulers of Communist East Germany had waited for weeks, desperate to know which of them had been named for sacrifice. Last week one of them (perhaps only the first) found out. An eight-line announcement in East Berlin's Neues Deutschland said: "State Security Forces . . . arrested Georg Dertinger, Foreign Minister." Dertinger was accused of "hostile activity against the German Democratic Republic . . . carried out under orders from imperialist spy services...
With Dertinger into disfavor went a dozen top bureaucrats, four of them Jews. Included: Max Keilsen, chief of the Soviet Union section of the East German Foreign Office, and his wife Greta; Peter Floring, head of the East European section; Georg Handcke, East German ambassador to Red Rumania. Even Premier Grotewohl himself appeared to be in danger. Secret Police Chief Wilhelm Zaisser acted without Grotewohl's orders in arresting his Foreign Minister...
...Hitler youth. They noticed that BDJ did not stop with the Reds, but also attacked the Socialist youth. BDJ was secretive about its membership and refused to explain how it financed its recruiting and propaganda campaigns. Last May Frankfurt police discovered BDJ buckoes toting truncheons, whereupon Georg August Zinn, the Socialist Minister President of Hesse, decided then & there to have a closer look...
...Season. In Berchtesgaden, Germany, Georg Kuesswetter was caught setting fire to Alpine skiing huts, told the court: "I wanted to scare away all those stupid tourists...
...presses for the Air Force (TIME, March 3). As Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Materiel after the war, K. B. Wolfe was concerned over the backward state of U.S. aircraft armament. Convinced that private enterprise could do a better job than the Army, he talked to Emil Georg Bührle, owner of Oerlikon and probably Switzerland's richest...