Word: deutschlands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War II, the victorious Allies banned Germany's national anthem, Deutschland, Deutschland uber Alles (Germany Above All) as too nationalistic. In 1952 West Germany revived the last of the anthem's three stanzas, which extols "unity and justice and freedom...
...seems? As the seven members of the East bloc military alliance prepare to renew their ties, which formally expire in May, there are signs of discord simmering beneath the pact's outward unity. One such signal flashed last week when East Germany's Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland prominently reprinted remarks by a senior Hungarian official that seemed to question Moscow's right to meddle in the internal affairs of its allies...
...last refuge of an artistic quisling. His hurtling, bullying camera captures characters in heat or dancing on the barricades taunting their Soviet godfathers. But it takes a strong subject not to be overwhelmed by Wajda's scenery-chewing style. Rolf Hochhuth's novel Eine Liebe in Deutschland offered that subject: the purging delirium of love set against the corruptive madness of Nazism...
...Alfred Dregger was singled out for blame. He had angered the East Germans by bluntly stating in an interview with the conservative daily Die Welt that "our future does not depend upon whether Herr Honecker pays us the honor of his visit." The East German Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland labeled the remarks "scandalous and provocative abuse" and added that Honecker "in the face of such developments is not pushing for a visit to the Federal Republic...
...first, the Honecker regime tried to downplay the anti-German hysteria and even cautiously challenged Moscow with editorials in Neues Deutschland that supported a policy of detente with the West. During the past two weeks, however, the East Germans have begun to echo Moscow in accusing West Germany of "re-vanchism," the desire to restore the boundaries that existed before World War II. In Leipzig, students returning for the first day of school were asked to display pictures that they had drawn of tanks protecting their homeland from the West. Stories began to spread that Honecker would have to endure...