In a Vienna rooming house, four years ago, an obscure German citizen named Wilhelm Kaiser died, unmourned by anyone except his landlady. That kindly soul, Frau Amalie Feix, had nursed Kaiser during his illness, had paid hospital and funeral bills. The only valuables he had left behind were three rings. These, Frau Feix thought, rightly belonged to her. She hoped to sell them to make up for her expenses. Frau Feix, however, ran smack up against the Big Four.
The Potsdam conferees had decided that German assets in Eastern Austria could be seized by Russia for reparations. For two years,...
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