Word: austria
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...Goebbels - but also the communist paper Der Kämpfer and the more moderate Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. The facsimiles are bound inside pages of commentary and analysis intended to give them context. British publisher and hobby historian Peter McGee has already launched similar projects in eight European countries, including Austria. Prominent historians, such as Hans Mommsen, a leading expert on the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, and Wolfgang Benz, head of the Berlin Center for Research on Anti-semitism, are advisers to the project. "We want to give people the opportunity to form their own picture not only...
...Moscow began turning off the gas to Ukraine's pipes on Jan. 1, and by Tuesday it had reduced the supply to one-fifth its normal flow. On Wednesday, it cut the supply entirely. By then, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Croatia and Bosnia all reported a virtual shutoff in gas deliveries, and a resulting shortage in homes and businesses. So did Bulgaria, where the chill of the Russian gas cut was so swift - and where reserves are so low - that officials said they would consider restarting an unused nuclear power plant to compensate...
...Kennedy’s qualifications, Kellerman quipped that “her qualifications are that she is the daughter of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, and the niece of Ted Kennedy, and Bobby Kennedy, and so on.”Swanee G. Hunt, the former U.S. ambassador to Austria and founding director of the Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, also said the Kennedy legacy could be a tremendous asset.“I can imagine that there is such enormous respect for the Kennedy family that she certainly has that working in her favor...
Hoffmann said he has spent his academic tenure coming to terms with “the most traumatic period of my life,” when he and his mother escaped Austria for France, where they saw Hitler gradually take power. Forced to flee Paris, he said they “never knew whether we’d be alive...
...project all their wishes onto Barack Obama. It looks more and more like a cult of personality: T shirts, magazine covers, TV shows, posters accompanied by propagandistic slogans declaring Obama prophet, messiah, revolutionary. We've seen it all before. Change? Sounds more like business as usual. Gerhard Moser, INNSBRUCK AUSTRIA...