Search Details

Word: ertsatz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Finally the budget provides for building a second super-cruiser like the famed Ertsatz Prcussen (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). As pacifists, the Socialists stomached this hateful appropriation only when Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich consented to find the money by doubling the German surtax, i.e. poor Socialist workmen who naturally pay no surtax (a luxury of the rich) will not pay one pfennig toward the new war boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Der Tag | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

| 1 |