Reply #7: I know very little.

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My sister remembers a bit more because my father talked about it fairly often. She says the unit of inspectors they worked in (which could readily be identified from Rosenberg's work history, I would assume) was disbanded and the people fired or transferred...but whether that was punishment or simply the end of the war, I don't know.

Both my parents were inspectors so I get confused between their stories. I recall one item that was rejected because it was shiny...but there were many things they tried to sell our government that would have gotten our men killed. During World War II, we had inspectors looking at all of it...and they were people with friends and relatives off fighting. This war? We didn't inspect a damn thing.

Rosenberg had my father's respect until the day he died at the age of 82. Understand, I found a copy of Das Kapital with a brown paper cover in the back of my father's closet after he died. My mother told me there were other books...but during the 50s they put those books in a suitcase, drove out to a friend's farm in Connecticut, dug a hole and buried the suitcase of dangerous books. Things were that bad back then.

One reason I know so little is that my family never said a word about any of this, or my grandfather's arrest by the FBI, my uncle's blacklisting, until after I was 18 and pretty much out of the house and estranged from my dad.