Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Pearl Harbor, like all Americans working in Germany, Herbert John Burgman of Hokah, Minn, got a chance to return home. But in 20 years of clerking at the American Embassy in Berlin, Herbert Burgman had acquired a German education, a German wife, a son-and an unbounded admiration for Adolf Hitler. He went to work for the Nazis, spouted radio propaganda at the U.S. on the program called "station D-E-B-U-N-K." He blamed Franklin D. Roosevelt and "his Jewish and Communistic pals" for World War II, promised that things would be better when he himself...
...Oder and Neisse." U.S. observers had several more or less plausible theories on why Rokossovsky had been sent to Warsaw: i) the Soviet army was going to be dramatically withdrawn from Germany, but it would now be able to dig in permanently in Poland, a short 50 miles from Berlin; 2) the previous heads of the Polish army were not reliable; 3) the way to prevent future Titos was to incorporate the satellites, lock, stock & barrel, into the U.S.S.R...
Thousands of Berliners this week were dialing "23" on their telephones. What they got was not the time, the weather or Long Distance, but a three-minute report of the latest news from radio station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). Of the 20,000-30,000 daily calls, nearly half come from residents of Berlin's Soviet sector, who apparently want their telephoned news uncluttered by the party line...
Pole Worked in Berlin Ruins...
...captured and again sent to Germany to work in the ruins near Berlin. At the end of the war he returned to Poland but left almost immediately, because the Russians had taken over. He returned to Germany, finished high school, and in 1948 received an IRO scholarship to the University of Hanover...