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Minutes before Michigan's Republican-controlled state senate was due to vote last week on Democratic Governor Gerhard Mennen Williams' latest plan to ease the state's financial troubles, the state treasurer sent each senator a statement of Michigan's obligations and cash in hand. Its net: Michigan, in terms of its general fund, was broke; by month's end there would be no money for 20,000 welfare cases, by May 7 no salaries for state employees, university faculty members, or for the legislators themselves...
...term extended, but was told the idea was unfeasible. For 4½ hours the bickering went on, made more short-tempered by Adenauer's request that no one smoke in his presence. Through the doors could be heard the angry outcries of Erhard's rival, Interior Minister Gerhard Schroder, who had wanted him out of the way. In the end a 40-man committee was chosen to find a new presidential candidate, who would inevitably be of less stature than Erhard...
Alias Dummkopf. In Hannover, West Germany, while on watch for Robbery Suspect Gerhard Kuschel, police arrested one Roy Oerl for trying to sleep in someone else's parked car, decided to let him go if he would sign a statement that he had not intended to steal the car, whisked him away when he dashed off the signature: "Gerhard Kuschel...
...Military Government officer in command of Buchenwald Concentration Camp during the final months before it became part of the Russian occupied territory, I was much interested in the trial of SS Guardsman Gerhard Sommer...
...Gerhard Martin Sommer, the man in the wheelchair, had indeed been at Buchenwald-but not as a prisoner. As the master of the punishment cellblock between 1938 and 1943, Sommer was the broad-shouldered bullyboy who, in the words of West German Prosecutor Helmut Paulik, perpetrated "probably the most hideous group of sadistic atrocities unearthed since the war." In the camp where Use Koch, wife of the camp commandant and the "Bitch of Buchenwald." purportedly made lampshades of human skin (she is serving a life term), SS Guardsman Gerhard Martin Sommer went so far in sadism that even his Nazi...