Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That honor went to U.S. correspondents, who staged a pressmen's circus, racing their cars along the Autobahn (and into the headlines back home). Next day was a school holiday, and the black, red & gold flag of the old Weimar Republic, now the banner of the new West German state, flew everywhere-20,000 flags had been shipped in by Allied airlift. The airlift planes still droned on, piling up supplies for any other rainy days that might lie ahead. Berlin's feeling about the end of the 327-day Russian blockade was shown most clearly...
...Words from the Sponsor. The huge red banner in the street below proclaimed "In the Soviet sector there is freedom." But on the platform of Friedrichstrasse station, which is in the Soviet sector, burly, hard-faced German cops of East Berlin's Communist-run police force hovered ominously on the edges of the crowd, eyeing the people as coldly as though they were a new consignment of concentration-camp inmates. An old Hausfrau with a shawl over her head stared defiantly back. Most passengers just waited in uneasy silence alongside their battered suitcases. These people were not running away...
...sidings were long strings of freight cars with glistening loads of Ruhr coal and machinery. There was a stir of excitement-we were pulling into the Soviet border town of Marienborn. The station swarmed with dark-uniformed, Soviet-zone police and Tommy-gun-bearing Russian soldiers. First, two German Soviet-zone policemen came into each compartment, scrutinized interzonal travel orders, noted down names & addresses. Next, two more entered and asked how many westmarks and eastmarks each passenger had. After that, two more cops came in to look through the baggage...
...jolly German businessman, who did not seem to notice the other passengers' tension, kept telling endless stories about how he had outwitted the Reds. The scared blonde across the aisle tried to shush him, but he kept rambling on. "Why, you can bribe the Russians with cigarettes and schnapps any time. Why, let me tell you about one Russian officer -" His prattle was cut short by a jerk of the train. After more than an hour, we were moving again...
Hill is broken faster than a soda cracker by American "fascists" (who have presumably taken over the Pentagon), when he interferes with the plans of slinky Spy Sherwood, who is helping an important Nazi war criminal to escape to the U.S. zone. A German scientist points the picture's timely moral: "Two worlds have met on the Elbe's shores. Germany cannot just stay in between. The time to make a choice has come...