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problems to struggle with. It was very difficult, he
said, for them to get eneugh rations to enable them
to carry out their responsibilities efficiently. They
therefore attempted to steal coal, to which they had
access, to exchange on the black-market for food.
Finally, he brought up the subject which is the
standing topic of discussion in present day Germany: the
dismantling of factories. He could very well
understand, he said, that factories which had worked
exclusively on war production were shut down. But
he could give examples of a number of industries
which had had nothing to do with war production
and which, nevertheless, had been shut down or were
going to be dismantled. This factor highly
complicates the German reconstruction program and delays
its execution. :
The same subject was also touched upon by the
mayor of Hamburg, Max Brauer, whom I met shortly
thereafter. He repeated that the dismantling of
factories must necessarily handicap German industry.
But, he further pointed out that now at least they
had been told which factories were going to be shut
down and which were to continue. This information
had clarified the situation.
Mayor Max Brauer, a man in his fifties, with
powerful and sharply defined features, a searching
but humorous glance and greying hair, has an
interesting past. He is one of the men who was driven
from Germany by National Socialism. For some time,
he had worked with Chian Kai-Shek, but later on
he settled in the United States and became an
American citizen. In America he maintained active
contact with the labor movement, being a Social-Demo-
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