Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commuted to 55 years in prison the death sentence of Army Private Richard A. Hagelberger of East Aurora, N.Y., who had been sentenced to die for the murder of two German civilians...
...they are apparently not willing to leave it at that. Last week in Rome, Italy's Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, waiting to greet a distinguished German visitor, Konrad Adenauer, told of a triumph of toastmanship achieved by the hardheaded, steel-stomached old man on his visit to Moscow last September. Unaware of der Alte's heroic capacity for hard liquor, Communist Party Chief Khrushchev had proposed one toast after another at a state banquet, watching eagerly as the German Chancellor drained glass after glass of vodka. At the end of some 15 toasts, Adenauer was still going strong...
...both World Wars Poznan was a center of resistance against the German occupiers, and its people have a reputation for stubborn militancy. All night long the sound of rifles and guns echoed through the city, while ambulances threaded their way between overturned automobiles and other obstructions. In their hotel rooms the foreign visitors heard men cry for help...
...rival series of articles for the Sunday Chronicle, describing in glowing terms his own rise to power. The Jack Spot memoirs hit their high point with the boast that he had mustered an army of 1,000 hoods armed with Sten guns, hand grenades, British service revolvers and German Lugers, to maintain his own rule. So long as the rivalry was literary, the Yard did not seem to mind. But then Billy Hill, bored with the artistic life, began to frequent his old haunts with the possible notion of taking over the rackets from Spot. One day last August, Spot...
...Europe has a new lost generation, it is the children who were born and brought up during World War II. Author Faviell, whose The Dancing Bear (TIME, Oct. 4, 1954) was a warmhearted, nonfictional account of a hard-pressed German family's struggle for survival in the immediate postwar period, here offers a fictional study of a German family falling apart after a half-decade or more of peace and growing prosperity. The brawling, sprawling, 15-member clan that occupies the first two floors of a Ruhr Valley tenement house is known to its neighbors only as "the bunker...