Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Except those few owned by the German and other state railways...
...anger, not in malice, came measured words of protest, last week, from His Excellency Dr. Gustav Sthamer, German Ambassador to the Court of George...
...accurate! Not true to history!" boomed Dr. Sthamer, protesting the British-made cinema drama Dawn, depicting the life of Edith Cavell and shortly to be released. At such words Britons bristled. What was not accurate? Did any German, even the Ambassador, dare to question such authentic, stirring sequences as that, for example, in which Nurse Cavell, when led out to execution, dashes aside the proffered bandage for her eyes, and stands, chin up and fearless, before a German firing squad of eight...
Ambassador Sthamer quietly documented his protest, last week, by producing the official German account of the execution: ". . . Soldiers brought Fraulein Cavell from a neighboring house. Her eyes were bandaged and a black veil was placed over her head. While being led to the wall she tottered and fell in a faint, whereupon an officer, kneeling to aim, shot her. . . . She never faced the firing squad...
...German Revolution of 1918," Dr. Friedrich, Old Fogg Museum...