Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Credentials of Fear. So you will find it any afternoon on the third floor of the cinder-grey building at 54 Kantstrasse, in Berlin's British sector. The feet you stumble over have trudged from the Soviet zone. They are the tired feet of those who flee from the "people's democracy...
Since Rosenow set up his barren shop (his office lacks even a telephone) Jan. 1, the refugees have come at an average of 150 a day. Rosenow examines each person's credentials of fear: arrest certificates, summonses to work in uranium mines. A few lucky applicants are flown to Western Germany. Others must remain in Berlin, return to their homes, or continue their perilous journey afoot through the Russian zone to the West. Rosenow explained: "Panic alone is not enough. We have that everywhere. We can hope to help only those who must flee to live-and perhaps...
...such easy refuge awaits Frau K. She was conspicuous among those I saw; she carried no rucksack, she was well dressed, and her eyes bulged with fear edging on hysteria. She had traveled all day from a village north of Berlin where her husband is a physician. Dr. K., a Stalingrad prisoner, was released a year ago and soon resumed his old practice. The local MVD eyed his success and set their price. He was summoned and instructed to use his office as an intelligence center, to submit reports on all his patients, some of whom were suspected of being...
...Doctors and lawyers, Zeiss technicians and garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...
Veteran Adman Bruce Barton had figured out a sure-shot means of cracking the Iron Curtain: bombard Russia with Sears Roebuck catalogues. "If that day ever comes," he told a San Francisco salesmen's convention, "we will not need any longer to fear Communism. No ordinary Russian ever suspected such a wealth of wonderful and desirable objects exists anywhere in the world as the Sears catalogue presents...