Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like an ancient despot, Hitler meant to commemorate his schemes of grandeur with great avenues and overpowering buildings. In Berlin alone, he planned a three-mile-long street of splendor, with the centerpiece a domed hall that would hold 150,000 people. The man Hitler took into his intimate circle to create these edifices was a fledgling architect named Albert Speer...
Bourgeois Banality. Speer was a strange figure among the crowd of beer-drinking gangsters who made up most of Hitler's inner councils. He came from a fastidious upper-middle-class background and joined the Nazi Party early in 1931, after hearing Hitler address a meeting of Berlin students and professors. The decision, Speer insists, was casual and apolitical. He knew little of Hitler's program and did not understand the seriousness of the Nazis' antiSemitism. Incredibly, during a dozen years of continual association with Hitler -first as architect-in-chief, then as wartime Minister of Armaments...
...accident did the Russians halt the development of a new Berlin crisis shortly after the first major armed clash between China and Russia on the Ussuri River in March 1969. In the postwar years, the utterly unrealistic Soviet portraiture of West Germany as a vengeful monster out for Russian blood was a caricature created-in part-to justify the tremendous sacrifices demanded of both Soviet and East European people. The genuine threat of China to the Soviet Union dispelled the need for the West German monster; more important, it made détente with Europe an essential of Soviet policy...
Willy Brandt's own ideas about Ostpolitik date from the years he served as mayor of West Berlin from 1957 to 1966. Brandt became disillusioned early with the Dulles-Adenauer policy, which assumed that German reunification would be achieved as an inevitable consequence of the West's economic and military strength...
...perceive the importance of a historic moment that occurs without U.S. participation, the signing of the Treaty of Moscow had little impact in the U.S. The State Department, whose reaction was notable for its lack of enthusiasm, expressed the hope that the treaty would lead to progress in Berlin...