Word: dresden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elegant oak-paneled office had paintings and a Persian rug. In it sat a German official of the Soviet zone, and I congratulated him on the handsomest surroundings I had seen in ruined Dresden...
...Soviet-occupied Dresden last week, any German proclaiming his loyalty to the new regime with the German equivalent...
...indeed," was as suspect as an Ephraimite. Dresden's cops had forbidden under threat of fine the use of Jawohl as a typically Nazi version of Yes. Germans untainted with Naziism, said the authorities, should content themselves with the plain, unvarnished...
Germany had reaped the whirlwind: Cologne Cathedral, nicked and shaken, stood like a mother without children, in the dead city. Dresden's baroque beauty lay shattered from an aerial bombardment in the last weeks of the war. It was as though such medieval beauties as Darmstadt, Niirnberg and Hildesheim, with its steep-gabled Butchers' Guildhouse, had never been...
...polled only 48% of the total votes cast. The other 52% was shared among the Liberal and Christian Democratic parties. Most striking fact: the center of SED support had shifted to the country; the land reform program had pulled an unexpectedly heavy leftist vote. In industrial cities like Dresden, Leipzig, Plauen, Zwickau, traditional cradles of German leftism, the labor vote split wide open. But power remained in the hands of the Russians and their pet party, which, will control 22,494 out of Saxony's 29,356 municipal offices. In Thuringia's elections this week...