Word: deutschlandlied
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...consider this the most serious." Dibrova replied that he could not accept the protest. Reason: East Germany is a sovereign state now; East Berlin is its capital, and no longer a Russian-occupied sector. Dibrova's statement was dutifully echoed by the East German official Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland, which condemned the West for taking refuge behind "nonexistent four-power status...
...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...