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This article reports on the launch of a scheme of radical finance reform by Herr Rudolf Hilferding, Minister of Finance for the Reich of Germany in 1923. Under the scheme, the Reichsbank will be the only source of issue for paper currency. The scheme will require real-value notes to be secured by a real-value capital levy. Meanwhile, the police in Berlin started a search for foreign currency.

The article offers information on the increasingly changing attitude of people towards sex and pornography, in West Germany and reports on the success of two pornographic journals "St.Pauli Nachrichten" and "St.Pauli Zeitung" amid the sex wave in the country. Reportedly, the scene is changing so rapidly that Nachrichten swelled from a press run of 10,000 to a twice-monthly paper with a circulation of 700,000 including 3,000 subscribers from as far as South Africa and Australia.

The article focuses on the significance of founding the "Jewish Weekly" by Karl Marx in 1946 and its contributions to politics in Germany. It states that the paper has played a major role in shaping policies of the country and has also served as the undisputed voice of the diminished Jewish population. The relevance of the paper on the speculation of the press concerning the appointment of Kurt Georg Kiesinger, who is a close and trusted friend of Marx, as German chancellor is explained.

The article reports on the move of U.S. President John Kennedy whose total occupation was turning toward action not only for Berlin but for the whole world. It states that after last-minute revisions, the president will answer to Nikita Khrushchev's last-month memorandum on Berlin. Additionally, the State Department will release a White Paper on Berlin to further justify the Western stand and then, Kennedy will also summon congressional leaders to brief them on U.S. plans.

The article features publisher Axel C. Springer who aims to enter the publishing industry in Berlin, Germany through the publication of his periodicals. It states that Springer owns the right of three daily newspapers in Berlin and two Sunday papers which circulates over five million copies. It mentions that Springer operates the publication of five magazines which circulation had totaled to 4,680,000. Moreover, it adds that the periodicals of Springer present various topics such as politics.

The article focuses on the recommendation by German High Commissioner to sell the daily periodical "Die Welt" to publisher Axel C. Springer for an estimated 1 million U.S. dollars in the week of May 1953. It was noted that some Germans have expressed concern over the potential political power that the publisher may gain as he currently owns two newspapers and three magazines. Alsos stated is the plan of Springer to expand his power by acquiring two more periodicals.

The article reports that the mistake made by the Army's Stars and Stripes in Germany in the middle initial of Lieutenant Colonel Richard F. Whitcomb, who was convicted of plundering a requisitioned house, has grown out of proportion by the media. Some of the issues published about Whitcomb include the discrepancy in his home town and his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial election in 1938. After Whitcomb clarified the issue, a jury awarded him 65,000 U.S. dollars for the lawsuits he filed against newspapers that published the stories about him.

The article discusses the attacks on Axel Springer, the biggest publisher in Germany. It relates that left-wing students of Erlangen University burnt Springer publications at the Frankfurt fall book fair. It states that his publications reflect the conservative insights of respectable German burgess, who is oriented toward family and home, antagonistic to Communism, and skeptical of change. It says that Springer fights back his opponents personally and in his publications.

This article reports on the plan of the Free City of Danzig to abolish German marks and substitute an independent currency in 1923. The city will issue paper currency to the value of 180,000,000 gulden. It will use an indirect gold reserve that consists of British pound notes. The project has been approved by the Finance Commission of the League of Nations.

The article describes the visit of Queen Elizabeth to West Germany. It states that when Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip is driving passed the Soviet War Memorial in the British sector, Soviet officers smartly saluted. It notes that Elizabeth proceeds at the streets where more than a half a million cheering West Berliners greeted her and waving paper Union Jacks. It mentions that her motorcade has stopped in West Berlin's city hall, where John Kennedy delivered his speech in 1963.

The article reports on the financial problems facing "Die Fliegende Blaetter," a comic weekly published in Munich, Germany. It discusses the increase in the magazine's operating cost in 1923, while its circulation has declined during the past years. The article also reports on the popularity of "Die Fliegende Blaetter" throughout the world because of its cartoons and the grossness of its humor.

The article provides information on the House of Ullstein which was considered as the wealthiest publishing company in Europe before German political leader Adolf Hitler came to power. The company was started by Jewish paper dealer Leopold Ullstein in 1877. It has published the "Berliner Morgenpost" which is one of the biggest newspapers in Germany and its illustrated magazine the "Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung." Aside from these, it has published two weeklies, three other daily newspapers in Berlin, Germany, and 10 monthlies.

The article reports on the arrest of former Gestapo agent Germain Lantier in Paris, France. Businessman Richard Deconnink recognized Lantier while having lunch at a bistro in the Rue de Mazagran on the Right Bank in Paris. Lantier is a Frenchman who deserted to the Germans in World War II and became a lieutenant in the Gestapo. He was arrested at war's end and had been condemned to death in absentia as a traitor following his escape from a military hospital.

The article reports on the military force mandated by Walter Ulbricht to People's Army from East Germany to stop the flow of refugees with 1,000 per day as of the last week of July, 1961. It presents the social situation in East Germany including Dresden, the most devastated area due to the World War II. It highlights the refugee exodus of desperate Eastern Germans from Dresden to West of Germany.

The article focuses on Berlin-born U.S. painter Karl Zerbe, who has garnered critical acclaim by using unconventional mediums due to his dislike of oils. He adopted a wax technique that was a revival of the ancient encaustic method comprising of several materials such as egg yolk, Duco auto enamel and hot beeswax. When he developed asthma due to beeswax, he adopted polymer tempera which resulted in paintings with architectural quality.

The article discusses the trial of Dr. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs for espionage in Great Britain. Fuchs pleaded guilty to the accusations and Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross characterized the case as the course of a brilliant, morally blind man from confusion to complete and irreversible corruption. The defense described Fuchs's formative years in Germany as full of political struggle and strife. The British court eventually sentenced Fuchs to 14 years of imprisonment.