Word: deutschlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's past kept cropping up during the day. One stolid old politician wanted a verse of Deutschland über Alles included in the ceremonies. And there was the riverboat contretemps. Bonn, desperately short of housing, commissioned the Cologne-Düsseldorf Steamship Co. to tie up a big river liner near the city. The line told Bonn that the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm would be there. Himmel! croaked the Bonn officials, the name might cause criticism. Replied the ship line: "S.S. Bismarck coming." That was worse. Bonn wired: "Send Kaiser Wilhelm, but hide name with sign reading 'Hotel...
Timothy G. Foote '49, with a paper on "The Wreck of the Deutschland: An Elegy," has won this year's Bowdoin first prize, Sargent Kennedy '28, secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced last night...
...proposal to enlist 25,000 selected D.P.s in the U.S. Army called for no Legion, but for enlistment in regular Army organizations. It did provide for citizenship after five years, and it brought a new flood of applications to U.S. embassies from Copenhagen to Rome. Said a Frankfurt student: "Deutschland ist kaputt. I'll take any chance to get out." In Rome, mechanics, priests, ex-soldiers tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity ahead. I want to become an American...
...officer in the Imperial German-Navy, young Niemöller had thrilled to Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, played on the ship's phonograph while torpedoes from his submarine tore the bottoms from Allied ships. When Hitler rose to power, Niemöller rejected Nazi racism, but accepted the bulk of Nazi authoritarian. doctrine, and did not rebel until Hitler encroached on his church. His defiance cost him eight years in Hitler's concentration camps. Yet, twice during his internment-which earned him a reputation as Protestantism's outstanding martyr to the Nazis-Niemöller unsuccessfully...
...they talked, a well-organized demonstration gathered. Singly, in pairs and in small groups, at first mostly women & children, Hamburgers streamed into the Rathausmarkt outside Petersen's office. Within an hour 4,000 embittered Ausgebombte (bombed outs) were singing the outlawed national anthem Deutschland über Alles, knocking hats off Mitbürger who kept their heads covered during the singing. The crowd yelled: "We're not Indians, not coolies, we must be treated like Germans." Other slogans repeated the contents of numerous anti-Semitic chain letters which have been making the rounds of the city recently. Shouts...