Aachen place
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At the end of the first week, I returned to San Diego for Ricky Ross's sentencing. That was where I had my first inkling of the firestorm I'd touched off. Radio stations were blanketing the newspaper with interview requests. Before heading …
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Silver Dollar West, and he was called that because he used to carry around a whole bunch of silver dollars in his pocket. The other West's daughter and her husband were major financial force behind Tracor, T-R-A-C-O-R, which was an Austin-b…
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And one of the brothers was a professor and was running interference in Austin for them. And they were never held to account. As a matter of fact, the colonel, when he was finally driven out of the National Guard, got a job working for the …
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that they would not want people to panic. But the way they were handling it was shocking and inexcusable. My wife and I are outraged and we want people to know how we were treated. This letter is not signed because of my concern for ourselv…
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They were the leading war production plant. A striking fact that this new Aachen elite is its comparative youth. Their ages run from 33 to 50. They all represent the upper middle class. The leading men in this group had spent their working …
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Aachen's new leadership clique had a fairly clear-cut, long-range political economic plan. The plan about which the U.S. military government knew little and cared less was a significant index of what one may expect from similar business gro…
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or even trade unions. Under the nose of the military government, he said, the new administration was setting up the framework for an authoritarian, hierarchical, bureaucratic, corporate fascism, a kind of system that even the Nazis had reje…
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among the employees. In short, the post-war leaders who emerged at Aachen were not ideological Nazis from the mold of Hitler or Himmler. They were instead the political, economic, and social technocrats who had actually ran Germany during H…
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though it could have been implemented only in the face of resistance of the existing elites. At Aachen, the town and its surrounding had been in the hands of a coalition government made up of left, centrist, social democrats and communists …
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The military government team is judged on its efficiency and performance record. Thus, when the military government group would enter a city, its first consideration was functional, not political. The political intelligence officer that acc…
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and the military government officers finding themselves in an unpleasant position because they were being graded on the efficiencies of the Nazis. Padover's study led to a scandal in reforms at about the same time the controversy over Pell'…
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Anyway, that's about the only thing we have set up at this point. And that's the last week of June. And I will be in the Austin area because my daughter's there. I'm not going to go to Texas without going up to see my daughter. So that's wh…