Foreign News: Red-Star-Cross'd Lovers

Günther Wolf and his blonde girl, Luise, are as dead as Romeo and Juliet, and because of a split between their families. But, for the world, the real tragedy in the story of Günther and Luise is that the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen and Fünfeichen are operating again.

Günther Wolf, 19, was a premedical student in Berlin. He lived with his mother in a small flat in the French sector. His father was still a war prisoner in Russia. At the university, Günther belonged to the anti-Communist Social Democratic Party, but...

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