Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further, that all four films, although they had soundtracks in Russian, were simply described as "foreign films," without hint of origin. The prevalence of blond Teutonic types led to a search of Dr. Goebbels' files. It turned out that Die Letzte Runde and The School of Hate (in German, Mein Leben fü Irland) were Nazi war-hate films, and that they had had their premières in Berlin in 1941-the year the Nazis attacked Russia...
...generosity has departed with U.S. power and personnel. To the West Berlin city government the Allies barked, "Balance your budget!" A second blow was an order ending U.S. direct subsidies. Henceforth Berlin must get its help from the new West German government at Bonn...
...enemy." They turn in their hard West marks at six to one for soft Soviet marks, then buy in East Berlin. A gaunt worker, castigating the Reds, growled about "die Schweine" (the pigs), but he had just got a haircut in the Soviet sector. "Berliners value freedom," a German paper editorialized, "but they can do little with it. They have only the hungry freedom of the unemployed...
...civilian High Commissioner took over from General Lucius D. Clay, and began hacking away at the lower levels of Allied administration in an effort to "get the Germans running themselves." His plan eventually foresees the West German government handling all governmental functions on its own, while he acts in an "advisory capacity...
...going to have to produce a lot of advice. We have trained few Germans as administrators; the ones we have trained are running into active hostility set off by Nazis still squatting in office. The autocratic German educational system remains severely unchanged; 90 per cent of teachers fired as Nazis have been rehired. German newspapers have been licensed back to their former owners...