Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide Potsdamer Platz, which juts from the Russian sector into the British and U.S. sectors, Russian-sector police staged another raid on German black marketeers. A big crowd of Germans quickly gathered, burned Communist flags in the street, and tried to overturn a car suspected of containing a Red bigwig. Women shouted, "Get out of Berlin, you Communist bandits!" When the crowd stoned the raiders, the police answered with gunfire. Several Germans were wounded...
...jeep with five soldiers aboard shot out from the Russian side of the square, raced across it, darted ten yards up the Potsdamerstrasse in the British sector. Two soldiers jumped out; one grabbed a U.S. newsreel cameraman, but the latter wrenched free and escaped. The other Russian chased a German photographer several yards farther up the street. He seemed ready to level his rifle and fire. A British major standing nearby, trim in his Black Watch uniform, put his hand on his pistol holster. The pursuing Russian stopped and walked calmly back to his jeep...
Exchange of Prisoners. The Russians arrested the city government's anti-Communist coal administrator, who had defied a Russian demand for his resignation but imprudently stayed at work in his Russian-sector office. The British arrested the German head of the Russian-sector criminal police, who had gone to the British sector to watch a boxing match. Then the Russians topped everything to date by manhandling and seizing Thomas P. Headen, deputy chief of A.M.G.'s Information Control Division, who had ventured too close to an unguarded part of the British-Russian line. The Communist...
Throngs of women and children brought gifts-carved jade, Meissen chinaware, jeweled watches-to their heroes, the Anglo-U.S. airmen. Some 1,300 German laborers, of whom 75% were women, started work on a new airport in the city's French sector (see cut). Said Christian Democrat Leader Jakob Kaiser: "Fifty days of blockade have proved that what was supposed to force Berlin to surrender to a foreign will has been transformed into democracy's greatest victory in Germany since...
...Patients. Two events (unforeseen by Smollett) changed Bath. One was a series of German "Baedeker" air raids, aimed at Britain's historical landmarks, which damaged or destroyed 19,000 buildings in Bath, and made the town overcrowded again. The other was the advent of Britain's Labor government. Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan decided that suitable hospital cases could get free spa treatment under his National Health scheme. The Health Ministry found that it was not going to be easy to decide who was "suitable." A mere yen to go down to a spa like the rich...