European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday july 21, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9 Over Here communist leftovers create big business for Gung by Ron Jensen staff writer Rhein main a West Germany a ainu to capitalism great the dust blown skyward by communism a collapse in the East continues to filter to the Earth As Dollar Bills in the West. Pieces of the Berlin Wall have been Selling As fast As they can be chipped a at tables on berlins streets and shopping malls in Illinois. So Robert Dudley figured if people will buy the Wall Why not pieces of checkpoint Charlies foundation and if that Why not soviet military Belt buckles and soviet military hats and shoulder patches and medals except in the soviet Union the communist party is hot stuff these Days. How Long before pieces of the Kremlin or Lenin a Tomb or even Lenin himself will be coming to an Exchange near you Dudley a californian and an a entrepreneur at heart Quot is Selling these things a and More a at a Booth in the base Exchange at Rhein main a creating a wonderful irony. For every soviet Mili amp a a. S4s Ron Jenson Caps from soviet officers Are hot items. Tary item he Sells the . Military Exchange service gets a Cut. A i have contacts in Berlin a Dudley says As he Points to a table that looks like a red army going out of business Sale. A and most of this is Black  Dudley who in the past has worked at the base in the dining Nail and at the Exchange has been making frequent trips to Berlin since before the Wall opened mainly to take pictures of history in the making a also on Sale by the Way. At the request of friends he once brought Back a couple chunks of the Wall. A they reacted like it was a Moon Rock wow this is part of the Berlin Wall a a he recounts. A i saw  he did More than see it. He acted. The next time Dudley was seen in Berlin he had a Hammer in hand and was going at the Wall like a �?T49er at a Gold strike what he did no to Chip himself he bought. A i started out just buying it like a tourist a he says. When he kept coming Back the Sellers knowing he was reselling the stones asked Dudley whether he was interested in other things. He was. Now he goes to their Homes and buys items in Quantity a a the hats the buckles the shoulder patches a and then Sells them at Rhein main a. When checkpoint Charlie the most famous Allied crossing into East Berlin was lifted off its foundation of june 22, Dudley found Opportunity underneath. He Sells a fist size hunk of the foundation for $ 1 so along with a plague and certificate verifying its authenticity. The hats Range from $45 for a siberian Winter Cap to $85 for a Navy hat with a Label claiming it was made in Moscow. There Are some in Between. There is of course the question arc these items what Dudley claims them to be a a it a a legitimate question but i get kind of tired of it a he says. First of All he says Here Are pictures of him Chipping the Wall. And look closely at. A. S43 Ron Jensen Robert Dudley right shows his merchandise from the East to a technical sergeant at a Booth set up in the Rhein main a Exchange building. This piece there is a Mark left by the reinforcement bars. This was a unique construction Here a a picture from the economist. Does no to the Wall there look just like this one on the table and those hats Well Here a the Label inside telling where it was made. Plus Dudley says Many soldiers and airmen who Are trained to know this stuff have stopped to look and none has doubted the authenticity. Besides he says people in the East Are hungry for Western currency. There is a flow of these items from East to West As big As the Volga River and Dudley is in the Middle of the current. A a in a getting new stuff All the time a a he says. Dudley won t Tell How much Money he makes in a week. A a lot Quot he says. More than he had dared Hope for. And its going to get better. The Wall gets smaller All the Lime he says meaning there will less of a Supply and More of a demand especially As the nov. 9 anniversary of its fall draws  foes meet for 1st time on the ground Trumbull Conn. Apr on March 6, 1944, col. Hub Zemke sent an enemy German plane spiral ing through the sky in flames the Fate of its Pilot unknown. On thursday his former foe reappeared. A a there a no need to have a Persona War a said Wolfgang Kretschmer 68, the former first lieutenant Zemke snot Down. A the wars Over  Zemke 76, now an Almond grower in Oroville calif., joked with Kretschmer and his wife Elli before the two former pilots signed prints of a painting depicting their air Battle Over Germany. They were brought. Together by the Greenwich workshop inc., an Art production company that made the prints. On Friday they were to appear at the workshops gallery in Southport. A see the holes i put in you Quot said Zemke pointing to Kretschmer a plane in the painting. The two men laughed Zemke in a p-47, shot Kretschmer Down during the first american raid on Berlin. Kretschmer in an fw-190, flew directly into a group of 40 american fighter planes with no cover Zemke said. A i jumped on him and after giving him two blasts i saw that he was on fire a said Zemke. A the probably never saw me a Kretschmer who lives in Haan West Germany said he suffered second and third degree Burns on the upper half of his body. Part of his nose was burned off and his wrists were left  but he recovered and returned to military service becoming an architect after the War. Zemken a plane crashed during a thunderstorm seven months later and he was held prisoner in Germany for five months. Both men say they have no regrets. After a decade of exchanging letters the two met for the first time in april at the airman memorial museum near Washington where the painting was first displayed. Artist William s. Phillips 45, of Ashland ore., said he has reunited other former foes to sign prints of their Battles. Or a a in be never had a situation where people got tag eth and weren t Friendly and refused to talk one  German soldiers take new oath of peace Berlin up a East German troops swore a new oath of allegiance on Friday that frees them from their vow to a defend socialism against All enemies alongside the soviet  an estimated 50,000 troops of the National Peoples army or Nova took the new oath ending with the words a i swear to dedicate my entire strength to the preservation of peace in the Cdr East Germany a the swearing in which came on the 46th anniversary of a failed plot against nazi Leader Adolf Hiller and six months before the two German states Are expected to merge was harshly criticized by a West German daily. In an editorial Friday the conservative die Welt described the exercise As an a absurd attempt to belatedly revalue the Nova. The influential paper said the swearing in was aimed at legitimizing the army and its leaders chosen by the for Mer communist dictatorship which the army served. The daily said the army in its present form will not survive German unification. Quot the Nova can no longer be an army in a democracy a just As the German wehrmacht could not survive the illegal National socialist nazi state a die Welt said. The East German defense and disarmament minister Rainer Eppelmann told 400 troops at the military Headquarters near East Berlin that the new oath reflects the political changes resulting from the ouster of the communist leadership last fall. Eppelmann said soldiers now must Combine a commands and obedience with a Justice and  a was a result the members of the Nova also follow the tradition of the men of the military resistance against National socialist dictatorship a said Eppelmann a former peace activist