The first news that U.S. occupation authorities had of their boner was an indignant telegram from a German official: "WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" Quite by chance, the German had picked up a new history textbook sponsored and financed by the High Commissioner's Office for use in the schools. It had taken little more than a glance to see that the $47,600 Synchronoptische Weltgeschichte (translated Synchronoptic World History) was shot through with Communist propaganda.
Authors Arno and Anneliese Peters made no bones about it. Back in 446 B.C., they wrote proletarian heroes were denouncing private property and the democratic state; and by 476...
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