Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...global scene, the wobbly Boris Yeltsin still sits in the Kremlin in a crumbling Russia, while the enduring German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been wobbled out of office in the most powerful country in Europe...
...entire month of December, the historic heart of the city, with its landmark Reichstag and Checkpoint Charlie, will be transformed into a gigantic open-air festival. Multimedia installations, laser animation, sound-and-light shows and an arts festival will honor the once and future German capital...
...Parool after it ran previously unpublished pages from Anne's diary about the elder Franks' relationship. The paper would not divulge the source of its story. But the prime suspect is Cor Suijk, a senior official at the Anne Frank Center in New York City and a source for German journalist Melissa Muller's new and well-timed biography Anne Frank (Metropolitan Books; 330 pages...
...Despite these difficulties, Germany's move to the left in Sunday's poll was significant. While the parties of the extreme right failed to make it into parliament, the old East German communists -- reconstructed as the Party of Democratic Socialism -- made a surprisingly strong comeback, gaining a total of 35 seats. That leftward tilt gives Schroeder a firm mandate to fulfill his promise to reverse Kohl's welfare cuts. But when it comes to pushing through tax and labor reforms, Green doesn't necessarily signal...
...themes were derived from World War II and the Cold War," says TIME correspondent James Graff. "He shepherded the country through the complex process of reunification, and worked to protect Germany from its worst impulses by centering it in a strong European Union." Schroeder, by contrast, is a German baby-boomer, concerned less with the past and the wider European perspective than with the domestic economy. "This election marks a new generation assuming the leadership of Germany, one less shadowed by the legacy of the war," says Graff. "Enough of history, German voters seemed to say; let's have...