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...years members of the Adenauer government, especially Franz Josef Strauss, Minister of Defense, and Walter Strauss, a secretary of state in the Justice Ministry, have been under heavy fire from Der Spiegel, which expresses views held by the government's more conservative coalition partners, the Free Democrats...
When it was discovered that the Herren Strauss had ordered the arrest of Der Spiegel editors without the knowledge of Justice Minister Stammburger, a Free Democrat, the opposition parties, the Free Democrats and much of the public interpreted the action as a personal vendetta with political overtones. The affair was made even more ominous by the government's request for laws which would enable it to rule partially by decree...
...magazine's favorite pastime was raking the ranks of West German officialdom, from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on down. No one was shelled more ruthlessly than Franz-Josef Strauss. From the day in 1956 that Strauss took over the Defense Ministry and boasted that Germans would never again play "foot soldiers to the American atomic knights," Augstein and Der Spiegel attacked. The magazine jeered at inconsistencies in Strauss's defense policies. It sneered when Strauss arrogantly pulled rank on a West German cop who stopped the Defense Minister for a minor traffic offense. It accused him of helping...
Thus gored and goaded, Strauss struck back. Three times he filed defamation charges, and with some effect. Just last week, a parliamentary investigation committee cleared Strauss of Der Spiegel's claim that he had helped his friends get housing contracts. But by that time, Der Spiegel had said something far worse about Franz-Josef Strauss...
Imperious Execution. Friends of Publisher Augstein promptly accused Strauss of an act of vengeance. But such motivation was not at all certain. Although Strauss probably knew of the raids, and did nothing to stop them, their imperious execution was strictly the work of Prosecutor Wesgram. At week's end, Augstein was still behind bars, where he can legally be held without bail until his trial, which may be months away. But from his cell, Augstein blithely sent out orders to boost Der Spiegel's press run from the usual 500,000 to 850,000. The magazine also filed...