Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Friday Philipp Jenninger, president of the West German Parliament, resigned after an address that said many Germans felt that Adolf Hitler brought "glorious times" before the war and the Holocaust. Jenninger's nationally televised speech was meant to mark the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the vicious rampage against the Jews that began the Nazi genocide...
...GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM 1915-1925, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A survey of war-weary "second-generation" expressionists forging an avant-garde in search of a new art and a better society. Through...
...Prime Minister adhered to protocol, holding talks with Cabinet officials and joining Communist Party leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski at Westerplatte in northern Poland to honor defenders against the German invasion in 1939. But she did not hesitate to speak bluntly to her hosts. Turning to Jaruzelski at a banquet, she proclaimed her support for "freedom of expression, freedom of association and the right to form free and independent trade unions." It is vital for the government, she said, to hold "a real dialogue with representatives of all sections of society, including Solidarity...
...Kohl compared Gorbachev with the infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Now the missiles are going, and Gorbachev has evidently swallowed his personal grievance in hopes of cashing in on Europe's newfound enthusiasm for his grand plan for reform. And cash in he did. The 70 top-ranking West German businessmen who accompanied Kohl offered the Soviets a $1.7 billion line of credit and some 30 trade agreements worth about $1.5 billion. Only two weeks before the Germans arrived, Italy's Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita cemented deals worth billions of dollars during his own three-day visit to Moscow...
...golden opportunity to increase trade. But some Europeans hope to collect a bonus by inducing Western-style change in the Soviet political system. "If Gorbachev's reforms are to succeed," says a British diplomat, "they can only do so by making the Soviet Union a very different place." West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, among the first to welcome Gorbachev's promised reforms, argues that the West would be negligent if it ignored the "historic opportunity" offered by the Soviet leader to turn his country into a more agreeable neighbor...