Word: thuringia
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...straining every nerve to maintain German industrial production for reparations to Russia-had freely used millions of middle and bottom Nazis in shops and factories. According to the Russians' own figures, 27,994 office workers and 24,512 railroad officials employed last year were former Nazis. Half of Thuringia's high-school teachers were former members of the Nazi Party...
...leftist vote. In industrial cities like Dresden, Leipzig, Plauen, Zwickau, traditional cradles of German leftism, the labor vote split wide open. But power remained in the hands of the Russians and their pet party, which, will control 22,494 out of Saxony's 29,356 municipal offices. In Thuringia's elections this week the SED won a clear majority...
Blandly the venerable, white-Vandyked Dr. August Proelich, Social Democratic leader and onetime Prime Minister of Thuringia, told the startled newsmen: "I don't believe it is wise to permit the rank & file to vote on such an important issue when an organization is as young as the present Social Democratic party...
Production. The nearsighted professor's ideas, in muted form, were everywhere in Thuringia. Farmers were tackling the problems of shortages, tractors, horses, oxen, fertilizers and seeds, not individually, but in collective groups and according to plan. Workers' advisory councils functioned in the factories, conferring with commercial and technical directors on all operations...
...Proudly Thuringia's potbellied Prime Minister, Dr. Rudolf Paul, told the newsmen that the province's industrial establishments, operating at 30% of normal last July, were now at 91%. Fleischer saw some of them...