Word: springer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime. He scorns David Ben-Gurion for saving his friendship with Konrad Adenauer in the face of Adenauer's appointment of Hans Globke as a cabinet minister. Globke wrote the commentaries to the Nuremberg race laws, Grass points out. He agrees with the German students who hate Axel Casar Springer, the press lord who preaches violence, who is a "co-chancellor, who is accountable to no Parliament, who cannot be voted out of office, and who has set up a state within a state..." But he does not agree with the students of the German S.D.S. in their hatred...
...called the decision "outrageous." Robert Kempner, a former U.S. deputy chief of counsel at the Nürnberg Trials, who now lives in Frankfurt, described the ruling as "the greatest setback of German justice since 1945." For once, the New Left and the right-wing press of Axel Springer found themselves in agreement. Both condemned the judgment as outrageously lenient...
...Karl Springer, a sanctuary organizer, said, "At the end of it, we have a functioning committee with a political basis...
Sensitive to the outcry, Springer last week went part way toward satisfying his critics. In a surprise move, he sold five of his magazines. Das Neue Blatt, a gossip weekly with a circulation of 1,140,000, was bought for $7.5 million by Heinrich Bauer, Germany's second largest publisher. A small printing and publishing concern, Weitpert, paid about $19 million for the four other publications...
Despite his grand gesture, Springer did not appease all his critics. The publisher, complained Columnist Otto Kohler in Der Spiegel, has "satisfied, in a formal sense, the recommendations of the press commission without touching the basis of his political influence." In other words, Springer still controls close to 40% of Germany's newspaper circulation. He also keeps two radio and TV magazines and a sports publication...