Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps most of all, West Germans have been frustrated by their enigmatic relationship with the U.S., under whose secure protection they achieved their postwar reconstruction. West Germany has certainly been the U.S.'s staunchest ally in Europe, but of late it has been feeling neglected and hurt. In German eyes, the U.S. often seems far more anxious to conclude a détente with the Soviets than it is to nurture a special relationship with Bonn. Shocked that the U.S. did nothing to prevent the erection of the Berlin Wall, Germans suspect that few, if any, of their allies really care...
Belatedly, the Germans are discovering that the U.S. is at least as much a Pacific as it is an Atlantic power?and that realization has led to fears that Americans would withdraw their troops or permit Germany to become an initial atomic battlefield in any war. The abandonment of the multilateral force and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's insistence that Germany buy huge amounts of military equipment from the U.S.?an insistence that helped to bring down the Erhard government?are galling. "We have bought so much U.S. military equipment," says one German official in Washington, "that...
...rescue was strictly unceremonious. As a Nazi, Kiesinger was interned in an American compound near Stuttgart, was released after 18 months as a so-called Category IV offender?a willing tool of the Hitler regime. Within a year, the Category IV stigma was removed. Considering testimony from German Catholic and Protestant church leaders, an appeals board commended Kiesinger for having resisted the Nazis "within the opportunities open to him in his position." Says he: "I have clean hands. I know what I did and what...
...occupation authorities to regroup on a county and city level as a first stage toward forming state and national governments. Kiesinger felt drawn to the newly formed Christian Democrats, whose membership embraced both Catholics and Protestants. When the first postwar elections were held in 1949 for a West German government, Kiesinger was one of the winners...
...Bundestag, he won posts on key committees?foreign affairs, defense, and all-German affairs. He became the most effective defender of Chancellor Adenauer's Western-oriented foreign policy in Bundestag debates. Adenauer hinted that he would some day bring him into the Cabinet, but that some day never came. Frustrated after nine years in Bonn, Kiesinger jumped at an invitation from his home state of Baden-Württemberg to take over as Minister-President (Governor...