Word: cottbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violence is showing itself most ominously in scattered eruptions of neo- Nazism. Swastikas are turning up on the walls of Berlin and Cottbus and Leipzig, put there not by elderly lost-cause Nazis but by teenagers with crewcuts and black boots. The neo-Nazism is mostly an eastern manifestation, but it shows up in the west as well. In Bonn, the municipal symbol of a reformed and repentant Germany, a sidewalk last month blossomed with a childish scrawl: (swastika sign...
...March 18 election in support of a conservative alliance there that is linked to his CDU and laying the groundwork in West Germany for balloting in December. Appealing to both sets of voters is complicated, and sometimes contradictory. Kohl told a cheering rally in the Eastern city of Cottbus that the two states would be joined in a currency union "as fast as possible." He pledged that individual East German savings accounts would be redeemed one for one in deutsche marks (the black market rate is 6 to 1) -- a guaranteed vote getter in the East, but one that will...