Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interior ministry of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the meantime, the police coolly ran a check on Driver Kaiser, turned up the fact that he had a record of five arrests on charges ranging from speeding to driving without a license. And from the West German policemen's union came an irate demand that Strauss be charged with an attempt to exert improper influence...
...surprising to be told that Adam and Eve spoke English? Not necessarily. As Author Jacobs points out, German, Hungarian, Swedish, Celtic, Danish and Basque scholars have all proved to their satisfaction that their respective language was the one spoken in the Garden of Eden. A 17th century Englishman demonstrated that the language must have been Chinese, since a newborn baby's first yell is the Chinese word...
Thousands of volumes have been written on the subject of language, but as Author Jacobs points out, they "often appear on poor paper with narrow margins, and, what is worse, in German." This book, fortunately, is wide margined, well written and in witty English...
...book is largely based on documents that came to light after World War II, when German archives fell into Allied hands, and on exhaustive studies by a research group under Dr. Stephan T. Possony, Georgetown University professor of international relations. Commissioned by LIFE (which also sponsored part of the studies), Australian Author-Journalist Moorehead (Gallipoli) has done an outstanding job of sifting the raw material and fashioning a coherent, exciting story...
Contradicting Communist myth, Moorehead recapitulates such things as the relative obscurity of Lenin in Marxist councils before the revolution, the fact that German subsidies were of great importance to the Bolsheviks, and the massive extent of the funds offered by the policy of "expropriations," meaning armed robbery; Stalin himself carried out successful heists. Moorehead evokes the strange quality of Russian life with its tone of "brittle lethargy," the Byzantine bureaucracy of the Czarist system and the paternal absolutism of the Romanovs, which was inherited by the Russian revolutionaries and became "the core of [their] mind." Finally, Moorehead stresses the importance...