Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempts to learn how the policies and personalities of the new Administration may affect relations between the world's two superpowers. On the official level, Moscow has adopted a cautious wait-and-see attitude toward President-elect Nixon, despite his reputation there as a hardliner. As a West German diplomat noted: "For Khrushchev, Nixon was the epitome of the professional antiCommunist. But his successors evidently are smart enough to avoid anything that will turn Khrushchev's assessment into a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...judge on Hitler's dreaded wartime People's Court, Hans-Joachim Rehse signed 231 death sentences. Last year a West German lower court sentenced Rehse, now 66, to five years in prison as an accessory to "legal murder." Plainly convinced that the sentence was far too light, the Federal Court in Karlsruhe ordered a retrial on the grounds that he was either wholly responsible or wholly innocent and should be sentenced accordingly. Last week a Berlin criminal court touched off a nationwide uproar by acquitting Rehse...
...blood judge, for all the victims you have on your conscience!" Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütz called the decision "outrageous." Robert Kempner, a former U.S. deputy chief of counsel at the Nürnberg Trials, who now lives in Frankfurt, described the ruling as "the greatest setback of German justice since 1945." For once, the New Left and the right-wing press of Axel Springer found themselves in agreement. Both condemned the judgment as outrageously lenient...
...sure, Rehse served only as a member on the bench of one of Hitler's most notorious political judges, "Raving Roland" Freisler, who escaped the Allies' justice by dying in an air raid at the war's end. But the Federal Court noted last year that German judges always act collectively...
...when he was drafted into the French army at the age of 27, Ponelle had already done work for every major German opera house as well as the Paris and Vienna operas. Quick and versatile, he has designed everything from a production of Hello, Dolly! to a TV version of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, is now talking to the Metropolitan Opera about a 1970 commission. Ponelle earns about $60,000 a year from his designs, lives with his actress wife Margit and son Pierre, 11, in a two-story villa outside Munich...