Foreign News: School for Democracy

School for Democracy The hatchet-faced little man known as Fritz Roessler disappeared in the rubble of the defeated Third Reich. A street corner no-good until he joined Hitler's brownshirts, he rose in Nazi favor by cultivating a Fuhrer mustache and showing a high talent for defiling Jewish graves. He became a captain in the German army, and Nazi propaganda boss in the state of Saxony.

Several months after Roessler's disappearance, a bumptious little man wearing sideburns turned up in the West Zone city of Hanover. He was, he said, Franz Richter, Ph.D., a schoolmaster...

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