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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, May 11, 1947

   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I i by Dexter Freeman Alfred bavarian Denali fiction chief and head of the Upan coming social reconstruction party is called a Blond Hitler by his enemies and our Alfred by his eve increasing Munich the Beer Hall is two thousand sweating germans men in their shirt blows Hau Frauen in bavarian serious hungry factory mechanics thousand ration on spious most of them drinking watery Are jammed together in a big Munich bauhaus waiting for the Leader to a sudden hush Falls Over the crowd As the Leader takes his place on a dais at the end of the then applause Breaks out in a spontaneous surge that shakes the the Leader bows slightly and raises his in an instant there is silence and he begins speak ing quietly into a Alfred bavarian Denali fiction Kingpin and fast rising Leader of the new economic reconstruction party is addressing a the carelessly dressed speaker is no militaristic appearance is far from the traditionally heroic pattern of the German an Middle aged he looks More like a schoolmaster than a but it is his voice that holds the vibrant voice that one moment is cooing sweetness and then into a dramatic Crescendo that draws wild bursts of frequently he lapses into bavarian language of the common Man in Southern Germany the audience loves a shabby youth sitting at a table with see he Speaks our you can understand what he look at the Ether High flown would they come Here to talk to us this is the lowest Beer Hall in town but Unser he is the Man for this fiery Leader w4th i a technique Many compare to that of Adolf Hitler is the most Dis cussed political figure in Bavaria to the  minister for political liberation and master of his personally organized was is mov ing up fast in his bid for like he has a and hungry look in which Many observers read the portent of a new but to Loritz any mention of hit Ler is i am sorry any suggestion that i would be a Hitler number two should have found its Way outside bavarian the was Leader said in an i hated Hitler All my he sentenced me to death twice and my seventy Twoy Earold Mother was beaten by the is in their quest for information when i escaped to there in few important parallels Between Loritz and Hitler except in their similarity of manner their fanatical intensity of their forthright bid for political and the similarity of their positions As leaders of White Hope parties growing out of the Backwash of the ministers voice i has been constantly he took office six months his primary goal was to increase the number of Denali fiction world Power of the press must be broken says Loritz courts in within two months he boasted that a Hundred new tribunals had been added and declared he would build the number to four if this can be he stated and if the number of Appeal courts can be raised to fort or it will be possible to finish Denali fiction within one to on and on half but Loritz has overreached him self in his Pursuit of his con duct As Denali fiction minister is currently under investigation by Bavaria after his private police Force was ordered disbanded by brigadier Gen eral waiter chief of Bavaria military Loritz has been accused of building his political machine through it is an accepted fact in most circles that Loritz is an ardent nazi a former Munich he claims to have worked in the under ground against Hitler until he was chased out of Germany in 1939 with the Gestapo at his living in Switzerland under an assumed he he wrote Antinazi pamphlets and smuggled guns across the Border to Germany resistance work in 1945 Loritz returned to Ger Many and organized his was laying Down a Rule that former nazis would not be admitted As today his Zeal to get the big nazis amounts to he heaps on them the full measure of his Wrath and protests when a tribunal lets off a top nazi with anything less than the maximum yet he goes to pains to make excuses for the smaller nazis and constantly urges lighter penalties for the so called the thousands of Small Fry he were pushed into the Loritz is pressing vigorously for a change in article 58 of the Denali fiction Law which prohibits former Small nazi officeholders and follow ers from engaging in an occupation other than common brings great difficulties and is an obstacle in the Way of economic he it often Hap pen that Small nazis Are too heavily penalized and major offenders not punished protests would like me to pursue everyone who Ever said Heil Hitler meanwhile Loritz placate non nazis by demanding preferential treatment for them in government in the Issue of business licenses and in improvement of their personal one critical newsman commented one cannot help feeling he has studied the Hitler technique to its smallest detail and is applying it in re whatever technique Alfred Loritz has Sedas chief of the Small but the party has phenomenal Success during the first eighteen months of its founded Ona program for the economic rebuilding of Germany nov a Promise of work and Security was Drew bavarian votes in the december land tag election and won thirteen parliamentary run Ning third to the two major the Christian social Union with 104 seats and the social democrats with fifty four As Leader of the third largest bavarian inherited the Denali fiction Post just As a Neon Niche in the Public since taking office he established a reputation for fanatic dictatorial and obstinacy of opinion that has made him one of the most widely attacked political figures in postwar the bavarian is almost solidly and needled from every Angle by indignant editors who Call him a dangerous Man and an enemy of the free makes no attempt to hide his impatience with world Power of the press must be the Nurnberger a Schrichten february 24 quoted him As saying at continued on Page 17 10  
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