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...students crowded about the Ann Arbor dormitory that winter night in 1947 were in a boisterous mood. They had cut off the dormitory's electricity were shouting up at a second-story window and bombarding it with snowballs. Their target: Communist Gerhart Eisler, guest of Michigan Youth for Democratic Action...
Last week, McNeil and Blumrosen, now graduate students at Michigan, wrote Gerhart Eisler, who is now a big shot in East Germany, a letter...
...Gerhart Eisler...
...Like Gerhart Eisler, fugitive from U.S. justice and chief of propaganda for the Reds in East Germany, many a top German Communist spent the years of Hitler's ascendancy hidden away in hospitable Western countries. A few fled eastward to the purer atmosphere of Moscow. One of these was the recently appointed East Germany Party Boss Walter Ulbricht...
...Paul Merker, who spent the war years in Mexico; Lex Ende, onetime editor of Neues Deutschland, official party organ; Railways Boss Willy Kriekemeyer, and dapper little Bruno Goldhammer, Eisler's own second-in-command at the propaganda bureau. Though still at liberty and at his job last week, Gerhart Eisler, who was kicked off the Central Committee two months ago, was reported to be high on the list of those soon to be purged...