Word: deutschlandlied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army band sounded The Star-Spangled Banner. Then it broke into the measured strains of Deutschland über Alles. "This," murmured the old man, "is a turning point in history...
From the Soviet zone of Germany last week came stories of guerrilla bands attacking Vopos (People's Police) and even Red army units. East Berlin's Communist Neues Deutschland ran pictures of four Vopos recently killed near Cottbus. and rewards of 1,000 marks each were posted for three Czech refugees who. presumably, had done the killing. In special maneuvers, some 25,000 Vopos took to the field with full packs, sending scouting parties across the countryside, posting guards on the highways and digging foxholes. The East German Interior Ministry announced it had uncovered and smashed a number...
Adenauer knew the feeling; perhaps he shared it himself. Back from his U.S. visit, he told the German radio audience: "I shall never forget the visit to Arlington Cemetery," for there, "for the first time," Deutschland über Alles was played together with The Star-Spangled Banner...
...food was the most successful U.S. diplomatic stroke in Europe since the Berlin airlift. Disturbed and angered, the East German Communists tried every way they could think of to blunt it. Their newspapers warned of retaliation against all who accepted the free food. "No one," thundered the Communist Neues Deutschland, "who falls into the trap of the warmongers in West Berlin can later say, when they get him into trouble, that he did not know it." They said that the food was poisoned, that a lot of it was horse meat intended for dogs. They forged copies of a West...
With Hitler's coming, Providence presented Rabbi Baeck with his most staggering task. In March 1933, the leaders of German Jewry elected him president of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland to represent the Jews and protect them from the Nazis...