Word: dein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drunken Census Taker. To tiny Spitzen-on-the-Dein, which soon seems a microcosm of all Germany, the year 1945 brings desolation, misery and hunger. The town "was as shriveled in structure and decomposed as an oxen's tongue black with ants." A lonely horse nuzzled the gutters as children hung to its tail; the undertaker had no more embalming fluid for his corpses; "everyone wore grey and over their shoulders were hitched empty cartridge belts." From the old concentration camp near by, the D.P. inmates burst out to freedom to add their misery to that of the gutted...