Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy arsenal consists of some 350 tanks, over 290 artillery pieces, ranging from 130-to 85 -mm. guns and 120-mm. mortars to rockets and self-propelled tank destroyers. Some 30 German panzer tanks, relics of World War II, are planted in fixed positions as antitank weapons, and the enemy has 200 antiaircraft guns...
...That Is All There Is. These new marketing institutes are recording for the first time the preferences of the consumer. They are commissioned either by a state agency or an individual enterprise; they earn useful hard currency by accepting assignments from potential Western exporters. Said one West German marketing man: "Over the last few years, 'Socialist' marketing has entered fields that were once the province of the secret police-inquiry, research and social research...
...Afrika Korps, he lost his right hand and two fingers of his left, and was posted to the general staff. His work at the highest level convinced him at last that he was serving a vicious criminal cause Rapidly he found himself one of a number of German officers and influential civilians who felt that German honor -not to speak of Europe itself-could survive only if Hitler were overthrown and peace negotiated. Stauffenberg personally enlisted many friends in a conspiracy to this...
Toward the end of World War II, Eugen Kielbasa, a German U-boat commander, torpedoes an Allied freighter in the South Atlantic. The skipper then orders his young gunnery officer, Emil Kummerol, to destroy all "floating wreckage"-including a dozen helpless survivors. Otherwise, he explains to his shocked crew, Allied planes and subchasers would detect and destroy the U-boat. One of the helpless seamen survives machine-gunning, grenade tossing, ramming, and torturous exposure to the sea. Because of his testimony, Kielbasa and Kummerol are eventually brought before an international war-crimes tribunal. The captain's defense is that...
...with enough depth, human good and human frailties so that neither victor nor vanquished monopolizes virtue. One cannot, even during the submariners' trial, condone their atrocity. But, Griffin wonders, was the crime any greater for the U-boat officers than for the pilots who bombed Dresden or the German scientists who built the buzz bombs that terrified London? And if so, why? Because the lifeboat victims were visible to the killer and therefore more human than the unseen victims of an air raid...