Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Machines for Herr Donath. What is left of German industry is working full blast. Production has nearly doubled in a year, is now at 70% of the 1936 level. Coal output has climbed to over 300,000 tons a day. Steel production has risen to a rate of 7,000,000 tons a year...
...Church to celebrate a Mass that was broadcast (in 1928), and the first to fly in a plane (in 1929). When the Nazis and the Russians occupied Poland, Cardinal Hlond became an international figure. In 1940, his report to the Pope on the "dark, apocalyptic disaster" of German atrocities shocked the whole world...
Today's typical German university man is a war veteran, 26 years old, intensely eager to finish his education and start earning a living. What leisure he has, the student usually spends in keeping alive-rebuilding his shattered house, making forays to the countryside for food, trading in the black market. He is ten times as likely to have T.B. as in normal times; the odds are one in five that he is a cripple or amputee...
...students wear dyed Wehrmacht overcoats to cold-weather lectures; a chilling wind seeps through the cracks or whistles through the holes in bombed-out walls. (Windows are fixed with "Hitler glass," a kind of cellophane Hallstein acidly describes as "one of the big gifts this man gave to the German people.") The rector had planned to spend $250,000 this year on rebuilding Frankfurt, but currency reform wiped out the funds...
Most of the students are watching the cold war with the air of gamblers waiting to place their bets. Says Hallstein: "They don't yet see which of these principles is more persuasive-government founded on power or on moral principles. In the German tradition are elements of both. You will not find many students who make a clear choice between east and west. They feel it may be dangerous to take a stand...