Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Westphalian ham, Danish chickens, French mushrooms and Crimean champagne, all at PX prices. Other amenities: a safe in each villa for classified documents, a radiation-proof bomb shelter. Outside the inner compound are apartment quarters for 150 servants, and barracks for 160 armed guards, said B.Z. The East German press has said nothing at all about...
...memory of most Athenians is the day in May 1941 when 19-year-old Emmanuel Glezos slipped silently into the ruins atop the Acropolis and tore down the Nazi swastika that desecrated the sacred rock. With this first open defiance of Greece's World War II German occupiers, Glezos made himself a national hero...
...before a West German Bundeswehr draft board stepped handsome Wolf Rudiger Hess, 21, conscientious objector and son of convicted Nazi War Criminal Rudolf Hess, now whiling away his life in Berlin's dark Spandau Prison. Young Hess explained that he is loath to put in his legal twelve-month stint in West Germany's army. With bitter Teutonic irony, he enlarged upon his refusal to be drafted: "My conscience forbids me to serve those who judged and condemned my father. Moreover, in performing military service, which might be construed as aiding in the preparation for a next...
Swiss pineapple cheese cream scarcely sounds like a dish designed to go with German Schinken und Kartoffel. But, forewarned by trade journals, wise West German grocers are busily stocking up on the ingredients. After Clemens Wilmenrod, Der Fernsehkoch (The Television Cook), tells the Hausfrauen how to make it, Swiss cream is sure to be a favorite dessert-and Clemens plans to pass the word soon. The balding, Menjou-mustached, ample-jowled Fernsehkoch last week was well into his seventh year on the air, with the oldest and most popular show on West German...
...Bill Castle, who grew up in a "nice nontheatrical family" on Manhattan's Upper West Side, such electronic promotion is mild. In 1939, in his hopeful, pre-Holly-wood days, he found himself running a straw-hat theater in Stony Creek, Conn, with a German actress, Ellen Schwanneke, on his hands. Business was bad, but Hitler saved the show by inviting Ellen home for a festival. She refused, and Bill billed her as "The Girl Who Said No to Hitler." Then one night he broke every window in the theater and scrawled swastikas on the walls. "We opened," says...