Word: geraes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Changes of foehn-like abruptness have checkered Dr. Paul's political meanderings. When Hitler came to power, spectacled Dr. Paul divorced his Jewish wife, who was later sent to her death in the Riga concentration camp. In 1945, the Americans appointed Dr. Paul mayor of Gera in Thuringia. When the Russians took over Gera, Dr. Paul received them in flag-bedecked streets. He joined the Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity Party and was soon appointed minister president of Thuringia...
Propaganda. Talk of socialism pervaded the atmosphere. In Gera the reporters listened to a nearsighted Communist professor, who might have mistaken his visitors for Soviet newsmen, lecture a training class for new teachers. He argued that Britain and the U.S. had "only formal democracy," struck at the British Labor Government, told the class: "Democracy is not the goal but the way to achieve the goal. As I have repeatedly said, the goal is socialism...
...Bessler textile factory in Gera, managed by 46-year-old Willi Huhne, who held the same job through the Nazi era, was turning out from 2.4 to 2.6 million yards of cloth as against 3 million yards in prewar years. Sadly Huhne watched a machine turning out cloth with Stalin's picture on it, said he still favored private enterprise...