Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anyone offering a defense of Germans runs the chance of being considered a Nazi sympathizer, but since the forthcoming trial of German Field Marshal von Rundstedt appears to me to have some significance...
...face of small-arms fire from U.S. editorial pages, the Army retreated in lumber-footed embarrassment last week. It had blundered, the Army admitted, in dishing up a fortnight ago the warmed-over, spiced-up story of pre-Pearl Harbor spying for Russia by Japanese and German Communists in Japan (TIME, Feb. 21). Most of all, it had blundered in charging, without documentation, that leftish Journalists Agnes Smedley and Guenther Stein were actually Russian spies...
...A.F.L., a non-governmental consultant to U.N., used a different method to get the facts across. It submitted a slim, blue-covered booklet containing the testimony of twelve men & women who had survived Russian slave labor camps. To read and interpret their story, the A.F.L. picked a veteran German socialist, tiny Toni Sender, whose renowned taunts of Nazi bigwigs had earned her the epithet "Mrs. Big Mouth." Among the case histories she had gathered...
...every 100 men of marriageable age in Germany today, there are 166 women. The figure, a consequence of war, simply means that a lot of German soldiers did not come home. It also means that many others came back like the anonymous German who appeared in a news picture last week, as a grim symbol of postwar German life. He hobbled along on one leg, while his buddy carried his new artificial limb in his rucksack...
...Berke are teamed in the 100-yard freestyle. Woods and John Steinhardt will fight out the 150-yard backstroke, while Hoelzer and Ward will manage the 200-yard breast stroke. Ted Norris, undefeated this season in the 440-yard freestyle, will try again, backed by Captain German, Fox, Brown, MacVicar, and Berke will round off the meet--and possibly decide it-- in the 400-yard freestyle relay...