Word: deutschlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deutschland Uber Alles is a stirring tune used by many schools and universities as an alma mater. It was also the Nazi Party song, and one again enjoys great popularity in West Germany. In recalling the days of Germany's empire, it symbolizes a growing spirit of nationalism and a renascence of a German Nazism...
Then the Communists tightened the laces in the straitjacket. In each new district, buildings were requisitioned for military and secret police headquarters. The Soviet-sponsored newspaper Taegliche Rundschau was made the official government paper, thereby becoming East Germany's Izvestia. The East German SED (Communist) Party paper Neues Deutschland became its Pravda. Strict loyalty checks got under way among staffs of both newspapers...
After Blobel, the other six went to the platform in alphabetical order. Each had an unrepentant last message. Werner Braune, who had murdered thousands of Jews and gypsies, shouted: "Kameraden, es lebe Deutschland!" (Comrades, long live Germany). Faint echoing cries came back through the thick walls from war criminals who are serving prison, terms. Cried Hans Schmidt, former adjutant at Buchenwald: "Like me you are obeying orders . . . I am dying innocent...
...German political factions, including the Communists, cheered the news of the invasion. Fresh from Helgoland, where a century ago Poet Hoffmann, von Fallers-leben had written Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, Invader Leudesdorff exulted: "This is the first time since the war that all Germans are united...
...Germany. The key to Germany is Berlin, and not since the Russian blockade of 1948-49 has the outpost city seemed more menaced by the Red domain that surrounded it. Under the Kremlin's goad, East Germany is arming fast in the name of a united (i.e., Communist) Deutschland...