Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night of Friday, October 26, security police sealed and began to search the offices of the news magazine Der Spiegel in Hamburg and Bonn. The magazine's editor-and-chief Rudolf Augstein and several Der Spiegel executives were arrested and jailed. Simultaneously, Spanish police arrested Conrad Ahlers, one of the magazine's assistant editors, in Madrid. These arrests aroused immediate public outcry against the Gestapo-like violation of freedom of the press...
Although the government explained its sudden action on the grounds that Der Spiegel had committed treason in publishing secret information on the performance of German troops in NATO exercises last September, other less honorable motives were immediately apparent...
...years members of the Adenauer government, especially Franz Josef Strauss, Minister of Defense, and Walter Strauss, a secretary of state in the Justice Ministry, have been under heavy fire from Der Spiegel, which expresses views held by the government's more conservative coalition partners, the Free Democrats...
When it was discovered that the Herren Strauss had ordered the arrest of Der Spiegel editors without the knowledge of Justice Minister Stammburger, a Free Democrat, the opposition parties, the Free Democrats and much of the public interpreted the action as a personal vendetta with political overtones. The affair was made even more ominous by the government's request for laws which would enable it to rule partially by decree...
...Der Spiegel stood accused of what were indeed serious offenses. But however richly the publication may have merited government action, most Germans were shocked by police-state tactics wholly repugnant-and wholly unnecessary-in a democratic society...