Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitution repeatedly calls for the unity of all Germany. The drafters call it not a constitution but a "basic law"; it may be superseded by any permanent all-German "constitution adopted in a free decision by the German people...
...many a visitor from foreign lands, La Pipelette might seem expendable. The concierge's duty, wrote a German essayist some years ago, is "to open the front door for tenants because they have no keys. Why have they no keys? Because there is a concierge to open the front door...
Four years after war's end, Soviet Russia still keeps more than a million German and Japanese in her slave labor camps. Not all of them were taken as prisoners of war; many are civilians, including women taken from Eastern Germany. Little is known in the West about their fate; only an occasional carefully phrased postcard message reaches their families. But some have been released, and in its current issue the British Medical Journal published a memorable report on how such prisoners fare...
...report was a cold, painstaking case history of six German women, taken to Russia in 1945, who were released last summer and made their way to the British zone of Germany. They were Ida and Elli, both 21; Hanna, 24; Margret, 26; Agnes, 32 and Emma, 37. Cambridge University's Dr. Reginald Dean, engaged in nutrition research in Wuppertal, took down their stories. Excerpts...
...German-born Novelist Thomas Mann, who once found grievous fault with German intellectuals for not fighting Naziism ("This monstrous German attempt at world domination ... is nothing but a distorted and unfortunate expression of that universalism innate in the German character"), had decided that the Russians were pretty nice people, really. "When I remember how I myself was influenced by Russian writers and Russian culture, I can't hate them," he said. "I believe [they] are fundamentally disinclined toward...