Word: geht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sedists know that this time, as Berlin slang puts it, "Es geht um die Wurst" ("The sausage is at stake," meaning: this is it)..The elections (at which Berliners will choose 130 city councillors and 805 district assemblymen) are Germany's first to be supervised jointly by all four occupying powers. This means that, for once, SED will have to compete honestly with its rival parties (the Liberals, Christian Democrats and Social Democrats). Even without joint central control, in Russian zone elections last month SED polled only a bare 52% majority...
Subversive Parodies. By last winter the Belgrade broadcasters felt that perhaps the tune was being overplayed. They tried a new and hopeful theme song, "Es geht Alles vorüber, es geht Alles vorbei" ("Everything will be over, everything will be past"). But subversive parodies soon caused Propaganda Minister Goebbels to order Lili Marleen back on the air again...
...Goebbels has banned Germany's biggest recent song hit, Es Geht Alles Vorüber (It'll All Be Over Some Day). Citizens made up new lyrics in which they comforted themselves that what would be over some day was Hitler and his Party...