Word: deutschlandlied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free elections, which would allow West Germany to "swallow up" Communist East Germany. Already Molotov's admission had forced a new line in East Germany itself: free elections is a dirty term; after all, free elections had not prevented the emergence of Hitler. Wrote the party organ Neues Deutschland: "The lessons taught the German people as a result of their belief in the fairy tale of free elections under an imperialistic power are so bitter that anyone who forgets them for one single moment becomes a traitor to his country...
...Germans!" cried Schneider, an oldtime Nazi who worked for Goebbels' propaganda ministry in World War II. "When we vote on the 23rd, we will be the first Germans to show that Germans want to be reunified!" The miners rose, cheered, and burst first into Deutschland Uber Alles and then into Deutsch 1st die Saar (The Saar Is German), a song unheard since Hitler's fall...
...this be the beginning of ... normal good relations between Germany and the Soviet Union," said Adenauer to the beaming reception committee of high Soviet officials. But even before the spoken formalities and the strains of West Germany's Deutschland Lied were carried off by the brisk autumn wind, tough...
...this, Gundelfinger replies: "I thought this Deutschland-uber-alles rot had been squelched after a World War. It certainly is disgusting to find Prussianism lifting its ugly head under the guise of 'loyalty' to one's Alma Mater whose students are educated men and not harbarians...
...above the uproar: "This is the first time in the history of the French Parliament that a treaty has been rejected without the author [ex-Premier René Pleven] or the signer [Robert Schuman] of the treaty having been heard." Then EDC supporters struck up the Marseillaise. "Why not Deutschland über Alles?" shouted a heckler...