Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the German and British accounts are thus irreconcilable, the discrepancy grows less as the British account (and film) proceeds from the point at which Nurse Cavell stands flashing-eyed before the squad...
Next comes a sequence in which one of the German soldiers in the squad refuses to fire and is promptly shot by his officer for so refusing. At the sound.of this shot the cinema Nurse Cavell faints and is shot by a soldier as she lies unconscious...
...furious waxed the German protest that the British Foreign Office finally informed the British Board of Film Censors that the licensing and release of Dawn would be "most objectionable." While the Board was expected to follow this hint, British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain thought it necessary to clarify his personal views in an announcement made by his private secretary...
...broad goose quill is the favorite writing implement of Paul von Hindenburg, President of the German Republic. Last week he wielded it for the second time in a twelvemonth to enforce national political unity...
Because the German Army has long been suspected of Monarchist leanings, the Reichstag harkened attentively last week when new and fiery Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener declared roundly from its rostrum that the forces under his command are now "pledged and loyal" to the Republic...