Word: german
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Based on the "Smolensk Archive" which fell into German hands during World War II, the book gives a vivid picture of the lives of the people in government, industry, farming, education, and other occupations in one rural province of Russia from...
GENEVA, May 19--The West accused the Soviet Union today of trying to impose on Germany a peace treaty on the harsh lines of the World War I settlement at Versailles. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said it would "drive the German people to despair...
What do you know about Hitler? Pointing his movie camera into dozens of high school classrooms, Frankfurt TV Reporter Jiirgen Neven-DuMont put his question to scores of German students aged 15 to 17. Telecast last week, their answers displayed a surprising ignorance of Nazi turpitude. In fact, nine out of every ten students either knew nothing at all about Adolf Hitler or thought that he had accomplished more good than harm. Sample replies...
Teachers interviewed by Neven-DuMont blamed their pupils' ignorance on "crammed curricula," which allow no time for history since 1918. The German press had other ideas. Warned Die Welt: "There is something rotten in our German schools...
GENEVA, May 17--Western diplomats said tonight they may have to negotiate a separate stop-gap settlement with the Soviet Union after full debate of rival East-West German peace plans...