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Count von Lehndorff is currently the house surgeon at a West German hospital in Bad Godesberg, and this new book is based on his diary of the two years he spent under Communism. First published in 1961, it has sold over 200,000 copies in West Germany-a success attributed to the author's obvious integrity and credibility. A devout Protestant, Von Lehndorff loved his God, his family and his native land. He hated Hitler, Communism and self-seeking men. His mother and brother were imprisoned by the Nazis and later murdered by the Russians, and he himself...
...themselves; so do the town's 13,000 university students and faculty members. New Bonners, as they call the 521 Bundestag members and 12,150 federal employees, usually go to Cologne or Coblenz for amusement. Most U.S. diplomats and journalists live and entertain each other in Bad Godesberg, Bonn's picturesque neighbor, where the American colony is known variously as the Ghetto, the Compound or Westchester-on-Rhine...
...Their successes-and failures-are classic. Early this year an American girl (called "Eleanor" by the U.S. agents who worked on the case) on the staff of the U.S. forces in Germany met a Communist agent called "Paul" at the Embassy Club, a U.S.-run community center in Bad Godesberg. Paul called himself a naturalized American; romance developed, until Eleanor was blackmailed into promising to hand over to the Russians her boss's telegrams; thinking it over, she took her problem to the U.S. authorities, who promptly broke up the plot. In another case of blackmail, an East German...
...protect the distinguished guests, the sleepy Bonn suburb of Bad Godesberg was turned into a virtual armed camp. Some 2,000 green-clad state police deployed around the white Redoute, a graceful 18th century mansion now a restaurant that the government occasionally takes over for major fetes. Italy's Premier Fanfani, The Netherlands' Premier de Quay, Belgium's Premier Lefevre, Luxembourg's Premier Werner came early. Last to arrive were De Gaulle and West Germany's Chancellor Adenauer; then the whole group got down to business: drafting a "European declaration" to serve as a guide...
...Godesberg, Saarbruecken and Cologne, Algerians have been gunned to death in the street. In every case the attackers got away...