Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memory. But their most important significance today is as a warning to the whole world of what can happen when democracy breaks down." After getting past this sticky need to separate Heuss from the Nazis, the Queen went on to recall her own and her husband's German ancestry...
...GERMAN BLOOD, headlined Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express next morning, and Express readers took up the cry as the paper intended. Said one wire signed by three Londoners: "We are not particularly pleased to be reminded of the Queen's rather unfortunate ancestry...
...been marketed over here as a gentle, learned Santa Claus utterly removed from the Krupps, the Thyssens, the Schachts, and all the other industrialists and scientists without whose enthusiastic cooperation World War II would never have been possible . . . The President is, in fact, a skillful apologist for the German people." Cassandra was unmoved by Heuss's contribution of ?5,000 ($14,000) for windows for the rebuilt cathedral of Nazi-blitzed Coventry: "We want no apologetic tips on our national tombs . . . All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they come sidling...
...this point the German press joined in. Reporting the "antipathy of the majority of the British people," Hamburg's Die Welt declared: "This is disappointing to many of us who had expected more progress in friendship during the past few years. Now we know we were wrong." The Germans' sensitivity, in turn, stung the British. "What the hell can they expect?" asked one harassed British official. "Heuss was jolly lucky not to have anything thrown...
...Both are great-great-grandchildren of German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband and consort of Queen Victoria. Victoria herself was a descendant of the Hanover Georges. Elizabeth's grandmother, the late Queen Mary, was the daughter of the German Duke of Teck. Philip's maternal grandfather was German Prince Louis of Battenberg, who Anglicized his name to Mountbatten...