European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rabbi Poliakoff celebrates purim at Samoss when gis entered f he Home town of the nazi propaganda minister they found him but without affection or by Howard Katzander yank staff correspondent with the 29th division at a Jenchen you mention the name of Paul Josef Goebbels to the people of they Flap their hands at their with the wrists held in the uni Versal sign language that Means big the first Prophet of Hitler ism is almost without Honor in his Home his failure to impress his neighbors with his slogans and exhortations has been not because the people of Heydt opposed Hitler or disliked nazism or we rent interested in persecuting but be cause they knew Joe Goebbels they knew his twisted foot which set him apart from the children with whom he went to they knew his meanness and his hatred of people and screaming they remembered How he took his revenge on the Church that had educated the town of Heydt has now become part of the Street where Goebbels was born now bears his intersecting it is Horst Wessel named for the Pimp whom Goebbels immortalized As the first Martyr to the naz4 the youth who was killed in a Berlin Street fight and for whom the nazi an them is also the Goebbels House still surrounded by the Stark tangle of ruin that is All that is left of the House adjoining his was gutted by the houses behind it were destroyed by yet his House a Plain Box of a House with a Green Green win Dow frames and a Plain peaked a Limp Square of White the Token of hangs on the the Goebbels family Doest live there any his who Clung longest to the old Homestead after her son had achieved his moved to Berlin several months the druggist who has lived two doors away since 1913 knew at the first question about hitlers minister of he took a Quick look Over his shoulder to where his wife and daughter hovered in the then he grinned and waggled his he remembered Goebbels As an unfriendly he did not say hello like other people would when he passed on the said the he seemed to have no he was a Man named Rudolph whose brother Herbert had gone to College with added other scraps of Goebbels an ambitious he was always he had first studied for the then had abandoned this in favor of in the ruins of a Catholic damaged by fire we found the Man who knew Goebbels he was with White hair cropped so it stood up stiff in the German he had a White Beard and a Square teutonic when he he showed Strong yellow he he told Gustav a re tired Jesuit Mollen led us to a Small room with a four chairs and a Small cab there were two tiny windows High up in the Wall and when he opened the door a cold blast of rain blew i speak your language he but i have not had the Opportunity to use it for some he if you speak i will have no difficulty in understanding he denied that Goebbels Ever contemplated entering the Goebbels had studied to be a High school but he was always be ing distracted by studies which had nothing to do with his chosen i gave him his religious training and taught him said the Are you proud of your Pupil i he replied he is not a Man one can be proud Mollen said that when Goebbels was unable to continue his education because of Lack of funds he gave him Money from his own pocket and obtained additional Money from Catholic organizations to help when he went to the University of Bonn he was still a Good he was a member there of one of the most devout Catholic student Organ Mollen after that he became interested in politics and forgot the Mollen said he had seen Goebbels on infrequent visits to his Home and that once hed been invited to Berlin by Goebbels and had stayed at his Home he was always grate Ful to me for having helped him financially so he could continue his Mollen the Jesuit had carried on some correspondence with but always Only to intercede with him for someone then my Joe now of new York who was born and raised in Dort interjected a question of his he asked in Ger Man whether Goebbels had Ever shown any particular animosity toward the he replied the but it was not surprising when you know his Char when he embraced nazism he embraced All of its and anti semitism was part of he had shall i say finer then explained to me that schadenfreude Means taking Gleeful pleasure in the misery of he was a Clever but his teachers didst love Mollen con he was arrogant and selfish and tremendously but one could not help admiring him for his i asked what Goebbels ambition was and Mollen he once said to i will be an emperor i Mollen said that Goeb Bels first took a stand against catholicism by accusing priests of All kinds of after that the Church was forced into the background in i dont think even the nazis in Berlin respect him said he has no it would not be impossible for him to turn about and pretend to be a Good Catholic we left the priest at the orphanage Gate and drove off through the wrecked streets toward Goebbels which was presented to him by his Home it lies in a Park in the outskirts of the main buildings surrounded by a wide Moat which forms a Small Lake to the right of the the Entrance is through a 13th Century Arch part of the original Structure of the Gate House built by the count of Heydt in a Sec Ond Arch leads to the main which was destroyed in the 17th Century and rebuilt in during the German defense of Muenchen the Castle must have been an important troops of the 29tji division v which took the Castle found a huge radio trans Mitter in operating condition with its own Power Plant in the germans had been forced to flee too quickly to put it out of the furnishings of the place were the Long table in the dining room was decorated with the coat of arms of the count of Heydt and with the Library was furnished with comfortable leather divans and had a huge there were atlases and dictionaries on the in the adjoining rooms were cabinets of books new looking like review copies that had never been besides the usual run of German geopolitics and nazi philosophies there were some among them gone with the which runs pages in German there were also the Citadel by Cronin and sons arid lovers by downstairs a crowd was assembling in the dining the tables were pushed Back and chairs were brought in and set in at the end of the room a table was covered with a cloth embroidered with a six Point on a wide the draped with a huge was placed a Small wooden then Manuel Poliakoff of the jewish chaplain of the 29th division donned a praying shawl and began his he was assisted by Armilda Reich of Mead and Martin Willen of together they raised their voices in an ancient hebrew hymn of jubilation Sung at purim to celebrate the deliverance of the jews from an earlier of who Long held the hebrews in Captivity in biblical