Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the West German government refused to allow the yet unpunished Nazis to go scot free and thus continue to taint the entire German people by their presence. After a tense ten-hour debate, the Grand Coalition Cabinet of Christian Democrats and Socialists decided with only one dissenting vote, to abolish the statute of limitations on murder. Otherwise, the statute would have gone into effect on Dec. 31 and would have rendered war criminals immune to future prosecution...
...crime trials have been going on in West Germany since 1945. In the immediate postwar period, Allied tribunals sentenced the surviving Nazi leaders to death or long prison terms. Then the responsibility for the trials passed to West German courts, which have sometimes handed down lenient jail sentences that have outraged foreign opinion. By 1968, 6,192 war criminals had been convicted in West Germany. Another 16,000 to 18,000 alleged war criminals either await trial or are under investigation. Many might have escaped prosecution altogether if the statute of limitations had been allowed to stand. In addition, there...
...Japanese labor costs still account for a substantial part of the price differential between Japan-made cars and American or German products. Auto workers in Japan are paid an average wage of 6? an hour, compared with $2.42 in West Germany and $5.30 in the U.S. Moreover, industrial output per man-hour has been rising by 21% a year since 1960, while total labor costs have been climbing by only 11%. With such economic advantages, Japanese automakers have lately been able to snare a rapidly increasing share of the world auto market. Auto and truck exports rose 51% last year...
Since 1964, her sales have almost tripled to a peak last year of more than $6,000,000. She claims to have 2,000,000 steady customers and ten times as many occasional ones. Yet Beate is some thing of a social outcast. The West German Association of Women Entrepreneurs has resolutely refused to admit her to membership. Church leaders regularly denounce her. Even the tennis club in Flensburg near her home will not allow her to join...
...proceeds to an inner sanctum of the store, the shopper can look at even raunchier merchandise, including a dozen kinds of rubber phalli in varying sizes. According to the manager of the Stuttgart store, Beate's son Ulli, such Deutsche Wertarbeit (German quality workmanship) is particularly popular with French tourists...