Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first generation of Asian nationalists, of which Ho was a charter member, seized on these borrowed ideas. Ho's emphasis on nationalism made him stand out in the memories of his fellow Communists. Ruth Fischer, a leading German party member who knew Ho in the 1920s, wrote: "It was Ho's nationalism which impressed us European Communists, born and bred in a rather gray kind of abstract internationalism." To classic nationalistic sentiments, Asians added an indigenous ingredient ?barely contained outrage at the fact that the European colonizers almost inevitably humiliated the peoples they sought to rule. "Natives" were...
...Street of Splendor, of course, was never built. Hitler perished in the ruins of old Berlin. But Albert Speer, who was later promoted to Minister in charge of all German war industry, survived to stand trial at Nürnberg and spent 20 years in Spandau prison for using slave labor. He completed his term in 1966 and returned to his home, Castle Wolfsbrunnenweg, on a hill above the Neckar River in Heidelberg. Speer was 28 when he became Hitler's architect, 36 when he was appointed Munitions Minister, 41 when he entered Spandau. Today he is a white...
...beach, too, offers opportunities for various kinds of East-West relationships. German families, dispersed in a divided Germany, have tearful reunions on the golden sands. Polish black-marketeers, who drive down to Bulgaria every summer loaded with sheepskins, do a brisk seaside business with West Europeans. And everyone-capitalist or Communist-can now refresh themselves with Kaba Kara under the brilliant Bulgarian sun. Once regarded in the Communist world as the very symbol of American and capitalist decadence. Coca-Cola is now bottled in Bulgaria under U.S. license...
...Blighted Coast. Western influence has set in, and not only in Bulgaria. Perched all day on the rocks overlooking the beaches reserved for overseas nudists in Rumania, the natives happily ogle the great expanses of German and Scandinavian flesh stretched out below. In discotheques all along the Black Sea coast, local girls dancing with tourists to Kama Sutra's record of Didn't Want to Have to Do It have been known to offer themselves for the night simply for a bottle of Ambre Solaire sun lotion...
...Polish frescoes, together with carvings and graffiti from Faras, are being shown for the first time in Western Europe at West Germany's Villa Hügel in Essen. They have caused something of a sensation in artistic circles. Says Professor Kurt Bittel, head of the West German Archaeological Institute: "The miracle of Faras is a triple one: that these works were found, that they could be preserved, and that they existed...