The New Germany and the Old Nazis

299 Pages·1961·11.305 MB·English

by  TETENS, T.H.

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THENEW
GERMANY
AND THE
OLD NAZIS
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by T. H. TETENS
MorethanadecadeafterWorld War 11
theinfamouscrimesoftheThird Reich
still haunt the world.
Now a new Germany has emerged.
Its unrivaled energy hasalready made
it one of the most powerful states in
Europe.
What kind of country is this new
Germany? Is Nazism "dead and bur
ied," as James B. Conant, our former
ambassador to Bonn, believes? Has
Germanyreally changed? Ifso, where
are the hundreds of thousands who
once faithfullyandeagerlyserved Hit
ler's reign of terror? And what is life
like todayfor the Jews who are still in
Germany?
The answers to these questions will
(Continued on back flap)
By T. H. Tetens
WHITHER HITLER?
CHRISTIANITY, HITLERISM, BOLSHEVISM
KNOW YOUR ENEMY
GERMANY PLOTS WITH THE KREMLIN
THE NEW GERMANY AND THE OLD NAZIS
THE
NEW GERMANY
AND THE
OLD NAZIS
T. H. Tetens
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Random House New York
FIllST PllINTING
©Copyright, 1961,byT. H. Tetens
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Conventions,Publishedin NewYorkby Random House, Inc.,and
simultaneouslyin Toronto,Canada,by Random Houseof Canada,Limited,
Libraryof CongressCatalogCardNumber: 61-7240
Manufactured in the UnitedStatesof America
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PARTONE The Legacy of Hitler
I Return of the Native 3
2 The Zind Case 9
3 "Nazism Is Dead and Buried" I9
4 The Plotters :24
PART TWO Gennany Today
5 The Hidden Enemy 37
6 Dr. Adenauer's Two Miracles 56
7 The Termites 7I
8 The Honorable SS 87
9 Old Soldiers Never Die. .. I06
10 Ten Million Expellees and the Old Homeland I22
11 "Jews Should Be Exterminated Like Vermin" I40
12 The Other Germany I53
PART THREE Moral Insanity
13 Nazis in the Courts I65
14 "Bureaucracy of Murder" I76
15 From the Rogues' Gallery I90
16 The Heroes Come Home . I97
17 Villains and Victims :2IO
18 The Lost Generation :22I
PART F 0 U R Image and Reality
19 Behind the Adenauer Facade :235
20 A Dependable Allyr 244
21 "A Policy of Calculated Risk" 25:2
References :259
Index :27I

PART ONE
The Legacy of Hitler

1 Return of the Native
It was long after sunset on the evening of April 23, 1957.
when Kurt Lieser, a textile dealer, leftone of the drab build
ings in the business section of the south German town of
Offenburg, in the foothills of the Black Forest. Herr Lieser
a slight man, past forty, but still young looking-paused a
few moments to inhale the fresh spring air. Then at a lei
surely pace he set out toward Bismarckstrasse, Offenburg's
lively main street. The mild evening had brought out the
crowd. Young people chatted gaily, and stuffy middle-class
burghers strolled with measured steps past the neon-lighted,
chrome-blinking show windows of the department stores and
specialty shops. Here and there friends greeted each other
witha loudand hearty"Guten Abend!"
Ashe walkedalongBismarckstrasse, Kurt Lieserrecognized
people who thirty years before had been his classmates and
playmates. Today they passed like strangers, and their re
buffs brought back the bitter realization that he could never
again be an accepted Offenburger. As a "non-Aryan" he had
oncebeen drivenaway by the Nazis, andwhen hehad miracu
lously returned alive from a concentration camp, he had not