Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million worth of food to hungry Easy Germany, and gave the Reds a chance to refuse it. They did, calling the offer an "insult," and thereby stood convicted of condemning East Germans to hunger. U.S. food supplies would still be shipped to Germany, and pictures of U.S. freighters, Hamburg-bound with milk, lard and flour, blazed in Europe's newspapers...
When the British decided to sell Die Welt, Hamburg's influential daily (present circ. 200,000) they had started at war's end, more than 16 German bidders tried to buy the paper, including one who was a close friend of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. But the British were choosy. Last week they found a buyer who suited them. For an estimated $1,000,000 the High Commissioner recommended sale of Die Welt to Axel C. (for Caesar) Springer, who would thereby become the biggest publisher on the continent with control of about 15% of the circulation of West...
...Listen." Springer has built his postwar empire on the small book publishing house owned by his father, which had also published a small Hamburg paper during the Nazi regime. The Nazis closed it down, but otherwise bothered the Springers so little that they went right on publishing technical and scientific books. Axel himself even wangled a medical exemption that kept him out of the army, continued working at book publishing and printing throughout...
...biggest in Germany. As Hör zu! began paying off, he launched a woman's magazine, Constanze, which soon hit a circulation of 500,000, and Der Spiegel, a weekly news magazine. In 1948 Springer jumped into the daily newspaper field and made Hamburg's politically independent Abendblatt a leader in north Germany, thanks to his bag of circulation tricks (e.g., giving hundreds of flower bulbs to Hamburg children, organizing contests among radio hams and carrier-pigeon breeders...
Four years after the war, white-haired, Roman-nosed Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, ailing and half blind, sat in the dock of a British military court in Hamburg, charged with 17 war crimes in Poland and Russia (more than any other general indicted by the Western Allies): condoning the murder of Jews and other minorities, the execution without trial of Russian commissars, the deportation of Russians to slave labor. Many Britons considered the long-delayed trial unfair, and contributed ?1,620 to his defense (Winston Churchill sent ?25), but Manstein was convicted and sentenced to 18 years. Later...