Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mysteriously planted placards warned fraternizing Bavarian girls: "0 God, if it depends on us, you will pay for it!" Daily, the snowline crept a little farther down the mountains of Bavaria, hideout of SS men. A Sudeten German asked whether it was true that Americans were now fighting the Russians...
...Oberammergau, in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, plans for next spring's revival of the world-famed Passion Play had hit a snag. Stars Alois Lang (the Christus), Anni Rutz (the Virgin Mary) and Willy Bierling (St. John) had been refused American Military Government permission to play their respective roles and were being held in Allied prisons as active members of the Nazi party. But one leading character, Hans Zwink, a regular member of the anti-Nazi movement, was ready to go on stage. His role: Judas...
Germans insisted it was an old Bavarian drinking song. Americans and British thought it was one of their own. Anyhow, they all sang it. The Beer Barrel Polka became the Tipperary of World War II, rivaled in popularity only by Lili Marlene, which had more homesick appeal, but less oompah...
...Government. To the Allied Control Council the Russians also informally suggested names for an all-Germany civilian administration. But U.S. and British occupation authorities were still struggling to find German industrial, business and professional leaders for zonal posts. Before Potsdam, the Americans had set up local regimes and a Bavarian provincial administration. The emphasis was on "denazification." Political parties, trade unions, and political meetings (which the Russians encouraged) were forbidden. Now that has been changed. And last week General Dwight D. Eisenhower told the press: Germans in towns and rural areas will elect local officials of their own choosing before...
...From a Bavarian lakeside resort, the Stars and Stripes's Sergeant Joe Weston reported how news of the U.S. Army's lifting of the sharply-criticised non-fraternization ban was received by local Fräulein...