Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning with the East German revolt of June 17, 1953-and the Russians, who set great store by anniversaries, announced the Budapest executions on the fifth anniversary last week of that first satellite uprising-Russia's eastern European empire has been in a continual state of ferment, sometimes bubbling below the surface, sometimes , boiling over into open defiance. Convinced that Stalinist rigidity could not keep the lid on this pot forever, Stalin's successors tried to master the situation by easing up Moscow's pressure on the satellites. In one of history's most humiliating about...
Confirmed by History. Swope's beats for the World were often as highhanded as they were spectacular. Covering Europe in 1914, he charmed the German high command into letting him break the news that the submarine U-9 had sunk three British battleships ("the greatest setback the British navy has ever suffered"). So dazzled by Swope was James W. Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, that he disclosed confidential reports that Germany planned to launch submarine attacks against U.S. ships. Swope's story was promptly denied by the State Department, promptly confirmed by history...
East Germany's Communists never pass up a chance to point their Red fingers at the former Nazis holding some 20% of the places in West Germany's Bundestag, and the two former Nazi Party cardholders in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Cabinet. Day after day East German newspapers headline: NAZI MURDERERS UNDER BONN'S PROTECTION, or NAZIS AS DEPUTIES. Last week Berlin's "Investigating Committee of Free Jurists," making no effort ta defend Bonn's tolerance of ex-Nazis, published a look-who's-talking report about Nazis in high places in East...
Remnants of Gallows' Humor. Only slowly did the full content of the Hitler horror dawn on the Warsaw Jews. At first it seemed that in the German victory over Poland, they would only exchange one anti-Semitic prison for another. Even when that illusion died, much wry humor remained. The Germans were "the others." An "organist" was a reliably bribed German or official. A "musical" was a man who would take an occasional bribe. "Caterpillar tanks" was the word for those refugees so heavily burdened with their belongings that they could barely crawl. Deported Jews coming into Poland wearing...
This book is a penance to read, redeemed from sheer horror only by a few episodes, such as the Jewish tailors working on a German army order and sewing pockets upside down on uniforms, or the story of the men who argued that the Israelites' true revenge was to forgive their enemies. Above all, there is the bravery of Emmanuel Ringelblum, who continued to set down the terrible truth until, when there seemed almost no one left to kill, he was executed with his wife...