EAST GERMANY THE HARDER THEY FALL EAST GERMAN COMMUNISTS FOREVER ACCUSE WEST 
GERMAN CHANCELLOR KONRAD ADENAUER OF HARBORING FORMER NAZIS IN HIS GOVERNMENT, 
BUT LAST WEEK, TO THEIR ACUTE EMBARRASSMENT, A PROMINENT EXNAZI TURNED 
UP RIGHT AMONG EAST GERMANY'S TOP TWELVE COMMUNISTS . THE MAN 
WAS PROFESSOR DR . KARL-HEINZ BARTSCH, 39, A BRILLIANT AGRICULTURALIST WHO 
IN SCARCELY MORE THAN A DECADE SOARED FROM COMPLETE OBSCURITY TO 
A SPOT IN WALTER ULBRICHT'S CABINET . FIRST GAINING PROMINENCE WITH 
HIS LECTURES ON ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AT EAST BERLIN'S HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY, BARTSCH 
WAS GIVEN A JOB CONTROLLING COLLECTIVE FARMS, SOON WAS MADE DEPUTY 
MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE . PERHAPS HE DID NOT TELL HIS COLLEAGUES 
OF SOME OF HIS EARLIER ACHIEVEMENTS : A PLACE IN THE 
HITLERJUGEND AT NINE, HITLER'S CROSS OF DANZIG AT 16 (PRESUMABLY FOR 
DEEDS IN POLAND), A WAR CAREER IN THE NOTORIOUS SS . 
WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES KNEW ALL ABOUT BARTSCH, HOWEVER . HIS NAME 
HAD TURNED UP IN THE BERLIN DOCUMENTS CENTER, AN ARCHIVE OF 
OLD NAZI MEMBERSHIP FILES RESCUED FROM THE STORAGE HEAP OF A 
WEST GERMAN PAPERMILL AFTER THE WAR . RESISTING THE TEMPTATION TO 
SPILL THE FACTS ON BARTSCH, INTELLIGENCE BIDED ITS TIME . FORTNIGHT 
AGO, THE RISING HERR BARTSCH BECAME AGRICULTURAL CZAR, AND AT THIS 
POINT OUT TO WEST BERLIN NEWSPAPERS WENT FULL DOSSIERS ON THE 
NEW COMMUNIST CABINET MINISTER . FOR TWO DAYS THE EAST GERMAN 
GOVERNMENT IGNORED THE HEADLINES . THEN ULBRICHT'S PARTY CONTROL COMMITTEE MET 
AND DECIDED THAT BARTSCH, FOR CAUSING " SERIOUS DAMAGE " TO 
THE PARTY, WOULD BE DISMISSED FROM ALL HIS PARTY AND GOVERNMENT 
FUNCTIONS . HE HAD BEEN IN OFFICE JUST 36 HOURS . 
