Word: compartmentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As he spoke, a couple of baby-faced plainclothesmen boarded the train and went down the aisle of car after car, peering into each compartment. The train started with a lurch. "At last," breathed the blonde girl sitting opposite me.
"Ja & Nein." As the train picked up speed, the city of Berlin rolled by, glittering under the bright afternoon sun. All along the route, Berliners waved and grinned up from the rubble and their potato patches. From the hard wooden seat in her compartment, Marie Goebel waved and smiled back...
The train chugged through Potsdam, past the tall pine trees that shade the Soviet Headquarters. When I sat down in Heinz Depper's compartment, he was looking at a big Red banner strung across a main street. The sign said: "Vote 'Ja' for democracy." It was part...
In the aisle outside Depper's compartment I nearly bumped into one of the baby-faced plainclothesmen.
Beyond the Policemen. Shortly after crossing the muddy Elbe near Magdeburg, we began to see evidences of the blockade's end. On sidings were long strings of freight cars with glistening loads of Ruhr coal and machinery. There was a stir of excitement-we were pulling into the Soviet...