Word: bers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's past kept cropping up during the day. One stolid old politician wanted a verse of Deutschland über Alles included in the ceremonies. And there was the riverboat contretemps. Bonn, desperately short of housing, commissioned the Cologne-Düsseldorf Steamship Co. to tie up a big river liner near the city. The line told Bonn that the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm would be there. Himmel! croaked the Bonn officials, the name might cause criticism. Replied the ship line: "S.S. Bismarck coming." That was worse. Bonn wired: "Send Kaiser Wilhelm, but hide name with sign reading 'Hotel...
...officer in the Imperial German-Navy, young Niemöller had thrilled to Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, played on the ship's phonograph while torpedoes from his submarine tore the bottoms from Allied ships. When Hitler rose to power, Niemöller rejected Nazi racism, but accepted the bulk of Nazi authoritarian. doctrine, and did not rebel until Hitler encroached on his church. His defiance cost him eight years in Hitler's concentration camps. Yet, twice during his internment-which earned him a reputation as Protestantism's outstanding martyr to the Nazis-Niemöller unsuccessfully...
...Committee majority report, which has merited and received most unofficial, pre-assembly member nation support, designates the central coast line, northern industrial sector, and southern desert as Jewish. To the Arabs will go the northern interior ber nation support, designates the central coast line, would remain indivisible, with the frank recognition that Jewish taxes would, in large part, support the Arab area. With the transition period tentatively set at two years, it is urged that 150,000 Jewish refugees be admitted immediately, with another 60,000 per year to come in during the remainder of the period...
...Church membership figures have always been computed in a way that would make a certified public accountant shudder: different denominations keep their records in different ways, and few churches agree on just who should be counted a church member. Listing only those 13 years or older, the overall muni ber of church members (Protestant, Catholic and Jewish) dropped in the decade between 1930 and 1940 from 534 per 1,000 of population...
...they talked, a well-organized demonstration gathered. Singly, in pairs and in small groups, at first mostly women & children, Hamburgers streamed into the Rathausmarkt outside Petersen's office. Within an hour 4,000 embittered Ausgebombte (bombed outs) were singing the outlawed national anthem Deutschland über Alles, knocking hats off Mitbürger who kept their heads covered during the singing. The crowd yelled: "We're not Indians, not coolies, we must be treated like Germans." Other slogans repeated the contents of numerous anti-Semitic chain letters which have been making the rounds of the city recently. Shouts...