Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...postwar history. On the witness stand in Bonn's criminal court sat the Chancellor of West Germany, Kurt Georg Kiesinger. He had been subpoenaed to testify in the war crimes trial of a former diplomat who was charged with arranging transportation for 11,343 Bulgarian Jews to German death camps. The defense plea was a familiar one for postwar Germany: the defendant had not known what was happening in those camps. Defense lawyers summoned Kiesinger on the grounds that if he, as acting chief of the Foreign Ministry's radio-propaganda section at the time, did not know...
...future, he has nonetheless answered hecklers with an impudent "so's your old man." He dresses with a style and extreme casualness that stands out in Canada. After a trip to India in 1949, Trudeau wore a turban for a while. His usual outfits include colorful sport jackets, German leather coats, French leather hats, ascots and sandals. Gibed T. C. Douglas, leader of the New Democratic Party: "It's going to be unusual to have a Prime Minister who has to struggle to wear store shoes...
...Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, 83, the harsh-handed Wehrmacht general who led the invasion of Norway in April 1940 and the military machine that in the next five years ruthlessly ground 10,000 Norwegians into oblivion; of a heart attack; in Holzminden, West Germany. Even in the heyday of the German blitzkrieg, Von Falkenhorst seemed in a hurry: his troops and planes crushed Norway in just 23 days, and thereafter he used firing squads against civilians and prisoners of war. For these acts he was at first condemned to death by a British military court and later given a 20-year...
...more strident practitioners of the theater of fact. Therefore it should come as no surprise that this novel contains little fancy; it is frankly and almost completely autobiographical. Like his plays, Exile is a characteristically raw and intensely passionate statement. Weiss's first-person hero is a German-born half Jew who at 18 leaves his country to get away from the Nazis. He subsequently sojourns in England, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden (where Weiss now lives). But the title refers not so much to the transient state of a political refugee as it does to the traditional alienated state...
...with his mother. His long way's journey toward his own identity leads him to Paris. And there one day, sitting in a wicker chair in a Left Bank cafe, he suddenly realizes that he can escape his perennial sense of personal and artistic vagabondage. By accepting the German language, "the language I had learned at the beginning of my life, the natural language that was my tool, that now belonged to me alone and had nothing more to do with the land where I had grown up ... I could live in Paris or in Stockholm, in London...