Word: abegg
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Time for Play. A doubly censored look at Japan came from thin, nervous Lilly Abegg, a German newswoman in Tokyo. The Berliner Börsenzeitung recently printed her account of wartime Japan...
...according to Lilly Abegg, the Japanese are not downhearted. On Pearl Harbor Day, Japanese schoolboys tied pieces of white cloth around their heads, imitated samurai warriors going into battle; students paraded, sang in the streets. Wrote Lilly Abegg, perhaps with the Tokyo censor in mind: "One must have seen with his own eyes how Tokyo celebrated ... to realize how strong the war enthusiasm...
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