Word: hamburged
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...streets were dark because Hamburg has no coal for street lighting. In front of one house, shabby passers-by gaped up at the brightly lighted windows, listened to tinny dance music, shrill voices and the clink of glasses that drifted out into the summer night...
Every week at a castle-like villa, overlooking the Elbe near Hamburg, such age-old questions are being asked as ingenuously as if they had never been asked before. The answers given are as eagerly received as if they were dazzling scientific discoveries. The questioners-young Germans brought up in Nazi paganism-find Christianity an exciting new idea...
...Michael's House, once the villa of a Hamburg patrician, is a school where German youths in the British zone may take a ten-day "quickie" course in the principles of Christianity. The only such school in Germany, it was set up by the Rev. Neil Nye, an R.A.F. warden, to supplement the secular re-education of young Germans who have known no god but Hitler. The school's stated aim: to fill "the need for a definite and satisfying faith on which to rebuild the life of Europe." No Church of England outpost, St. Michael...
...Hamburg, well-dressed citizens hungrily peeked into garbage cans in front of Allied homes. There were few pets left in the city-an old household trick, now revived, was to soak cats in skimmed milk diluted with water for eight hours, to make them tender enough to eat. The current fee for prostitutes was two slices of bread. In Essen, where the official daily ration is 1.550 calories a day, some people were getting only 887-which meant three slices of bread baked with mixed cornmeal and wheat flour and two teaspoonfuls of sugar...
...formations or the listless stragglings of masses of men-or, still better, examines the terrible bleakness of the camp itself under several kinds of weather-the screen comes alive. Some of the shots of the desolate Nazi camp (taken in a real one, Marlag, in the British zone near Hamburg) imply, within a few seconds, months on end of quiet, soul-dissolving misery...