Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite a prelude to World War III, but the scene at the frontier etween the two nations was nonetheless a disquieting reprise of old cold war showdowns. Ardent nationalists demonstrated, inflammatory editorials issued calls to arms, tanks moved into position, and ships at sea began "strategic maneuvers." Berlin? Czechoslovakia? In fact, the moves and countermoves involved the area around Trieste, on the Yugoslav-Italian border, which until now has been one of the most successfully accommodated (though never finally resolved) East-West disputes...
...threats of Washington to pull out its troops, while the U.S. ignores the fact that 300,000 Americans are in Europe primarily to act as an advance guard for U.S. defense. American forces are not in Europe out of charity: the Pentagon would clearly prefer that Berlin be the battleground in a potential encounter with the Soviet Union rather than Boston. Says Jobert: "In all frankness, if it is in the interest of the U.S. to remain in Europe, it will remain here. If it is not in its interest, it will leave...
...satin smirking over drinks in a Munich nightclub. There are samples of humor: anti-Jewish jokes along with bitter comments on the regime ("In Germany teeth are being pulled through the nose because no one can open his mouth any more"). Excerpts from William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary give an American's impression of the scene. The period photographs and cartoons of Nazism aborning, the vivid paintings of rouged whores and marcelled flappers doing the Charleston evoke the era's political menace and cabaret decadence...
...hrer. Conservative readers are already complaining that Reich maligns and distorts Nazism's objectives. The magazine's advance promotional blitz was particularly upsetting. It featured decorative political posters of the '30s, tiny swastika flags, and throwaway recordings of Nazi party speeches. That tactic, charged a West Berlin court prosecutor, tended to glorify the era, suggesting that Hitler's Reich was fun. After a Berlin court agreed, police raided newsstands throughout the country and confiscated the gewgaws. West German television stations barred Reich commercials when they appeared to stress the frivolous side of Nazism's adolescence...
...Gulag, Solzhenitsyn describes his arrest for the first time. In February 1945, as the Red Army rumbled inexorably through Germany to Berlin, the battle-worn captain was suddenly seized near Konigsberg, on the East Prussian front. He was stripped of his rank, his medals and his gun, and escorted by armed guards back to Moscow's Lubyanka Prison. It was then that the writer was born. Passing through a Moscow subway station en route to Lubyanka on that bitter winter day, Solzhenitsyn paused and surveyed the scene...