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...only political-science fiction, but The German Confederation, written by Rudiger Altmann, a publicist who has been a consultant to Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, rapidly became a national topic of conversation when it was televised last month. And why not? Its scenario is nothing if not heady...
Seeking a Collapse. Obviously, no TV viewer expected The German Confederation to foreshadow actual events in Germany during the next nine years. But Rudiger Altmann's fantasy-and the excitement it caused-were symptomatic of the buoyant mood on both sides of the Wall, and a new attitude toward reunification. Thanks to the relaxation of cold-war tensions, Germans today are nursing a growing though still amorphous hope that a start toward a peaceful solution to the problem of a divided Germany may now be found. Few have the illusion that the frozen ice of Central Europe...
...find an American idea and tailor it to fit the German mentality." Result: he and Partner Leo Horrigan settled upon their own Musik fur Millionen, which pipes soothing background music into offices, bars, hotels and stores in six German cities. Three young Americans-Cecil Altmann, Robert S. Mackay, and John F. Herming-haus-pooled their savings and borrowed from their families to score strikes with bowling alleys in Berlin, Munich and Milan, last winter opened a ski slope in Berlin that uses man-made snow...
...couriers, traveling under the name of Altmann, readily identified himself as a Czech army major and his companion as a Czech army captain. Each copy of classified government documents is identifiable by a secret mark, and the marks on the microfilmed papers pointed straight to Frenzel. Tapped on the shoulder in the Bundestag a few minutes after finishing his speech, Frenzel meekly began mumbling a confession during the ride to Karlsruhe Prison...
When Ursula and her G.I. lover got married and sailed away, Frau Altmann refused to go with them, because "I belong in Berlin." By her stubborn, unheroic courage, this old lady reduced the cold war to the commonplace. But in 1949 the best of the Altmanns died of lung cancer...