Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texaco's reputation was tarnished when its chairman was forced to resign after a company representative in Germany was found to be a Nazi spy who had obtained a valuable report on the U.S. aircraft industry prepared by Texaco economists. That same year Texaco sponsored a German lawyer who, while on a purported business mission to the U.S., was actually cultivating goodwill toward the Nazis...
...Karl Linnas is guilty, this is what he did. In the early 1940s, during the German occupation of his native Estonia, he was chief of a Nazi concentration camp in a place called Tartu. Twelve thousand East Europeans were executed there, including 2,000 Jews. Linnas ordered half-naked men, women and children transported to a ditch and gunned down. Some of them he finished off himself...
...reliance on the U.S.S.R. With unfaded memories of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1940 and Stalin's man-made famine that some say killed 6 million in the Ukraine in the 1930s, they argue that at the close of the war the Red Army seized unused German stationery, blank military forms, typewriters, inks and stamps, all useful for producing forged documents. They charge that the Soviet Union has fabricated evidence as a way to intimidate fervently anti-Communist East Europeans settled in the U.S. "The OSI is in cahoots with the Soviet KGB," says Bill Liscynesky, president...
...what exactly were their beliefs? The 20 July plotters were mainly German army officers who wanted to salvage something from a losing war. They seemed happy to follow the Fuhrer while he was winning. Many soldiers from noble families were willing to die for their country but were ironically spared when Hitler pulled them out of the front lines: he did not want to create upper- class heroes. Vassiltchikov has little to say about bravery on the battlefield or anywhere else. She simply reports the daily toll with the same matter-of- factness that she describes toilet-paper rationing...
...diaries of a White Russian princess in wartime Berlin tell of the German elite who attempted to kill Hitler but failed...