Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Received as a present from West German President Theodor Heuss a book en titled Praesident Dwight D. Eisenhower's Vorfahren und Verwartdte, which traces Ike's family five centuries back to the Odenwald Mountains...
...fortnight ago, as the SED celebrated its tenth anniversary in East Berlin's Metropol theater, a count by West German Socialists showed that 657 top Socialist leaders were in East German or Soviet prisons. In the lower echelons, the number of former Socialists jailed or killed could only be estimated, but it amounted to thousands. Socialists had been removed from all positions of importance in East Germany. Communist in all but name were Grotewohl, now the jowly Premier of East Germany, and Ebert (son of the Weimar Republic's first President), now the alcoholic mayor of East Berlin...
Last week Grotewohl got his answer in a pamphlet issued by the West German Socialists. The founding of the SED, said the pamphlet, was "the darkest day in the German workers' movement." It solemnly warned: "Whoever tries to make a pact with Communists will perish doing so ... Whoever lets the Communists have his little finger will lose his whole hand . . . Whoever tries to remain neutral towards Communism gives himself...
...rearmament, Spiro felt that the need for a 500,000 man German army is much less acute now than it had seemed in 1950. Kohn agreed, and pointed out, in conjunction with Theodor Weyer, exchange student from the Free University of Berlin, that the German economy might not take to large-scale rearmament, since it is prospering under the present...
Weyer felt that neutrality is unlikely because of German's geographical position in Europe and because Germany is an active, rising nation in World affairs...