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...group, it appeared, had used a Düsseldorf import-export firm to organize a neo-Nazi International, with contacts in France, Britain, Spain and Argentina. German firms looking for business in Madrid were told to see Otto Skorzeny, the scar-faced ex-SS officer who recaptured Mussolini in 1943. In Buenos Aires the man to see was Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzer knacker (tankbuster) now attached to Dictator Perón's army-training staff, who last week was given special leave to fly to Germany for a "whirlwind tour of speeches" on behalf...
Busily fishing in Germany's agitated waters, Georgy Malenkov summoned his two chief East German puppets-Otto Grotewohl and Walter Ulbricht-to Moscow last week for a Feast of "Soviet-German Friendship." They were wined & dined in Moscow as no German has been since the days of Von Ribbentrop. In a sudden onrush of vodka, the workers' rebellion of June 17 and the puppet regime's consequent loss of face, were supposed to be forgotten. Malenkov toasted the East German regime as "the bulwark of peaceful forces of all Germany"; he promised to give it "full support...
Vienna-born Movie Producer Otto (The Moon Is Blue) Preminger was asked to come to Manhattan to straighten out a little matter with his exwife, Marion Mill Preminger. She wants $48,800, which she claims is due her under their 1949 separation and alimony agreements. While she endures a "virtual hand-to-mouth existence," he lives high off the hog, she charged. "It is no secret that [he and his second wife] enjoy an outstanding reputation for lavishness in entertainment...
Some 50,000 German fans seemed as enthusiastic as ever about the flyers whom the father of modern gliding, Germany's Otto Lilienthal, used to call "the birds' apprentices." Since the lifting of the allied ban, 840 gliding clubs have sprung up in Germany. Average age of the Orlinghausen meet's 25 pilots...
Though the Communists had refused with sneers Eisenhower's original offer of $15 million worth of free food, Communist Premier Otto Grotewohl now offered to buy it "and much more" from the U.S. -if the U.S. would only release $1,000,000 of East German assets frozen in the U.S. The Soviet government proclaimed a grandiose offer of $57 million emergency foodstuffs for their zone-burying as deeply as possible the fact that East Germany would be expected to pay for it with manufactured goods. Thus the East German Communists contradicted their own self-righteous insistence that there...