Word: hausfrauen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stocky, earnest Red Army captain had been in Berlin only a week and it was something of a disappointment. He had heard tall tales of worldly Berlin and its women, but he had seen only weary Hausfrauen alien grubbing for food or fuel among the battered buildings...
That night, after curfew, two of the goth's military police stopped two women in the village street. The women explained that they were going for a midwife. The MPs went along, just to be certain. They passed an entrance to a salt mine. Said one of the Hausfrauen: "That's where the bullion is hidden." MP ears perked up: How's that again? The woman repeated the gossip she had heard-Germany's gold had been salted away in that mine...
...villages and country towns were different. From behind lace curtains in neat, storybook cottages, Hausfrauen watched the endless chain of tanks clanking down the cobbled Hauptstrasse. The war was passing them...
Last week Nazi police discovered that some of Germany's tenderhearted Hausfrauen were "spoiling out-of-bounds" their Polish prisoners, imported to do the farm work left by Hitler's fighting men. In Mainz a special court convicted Frau Maria Frey of allowing hers "repeatedly to hug and kiss her and replying to these caresses," sentenced her to 18 months' imprisonment. Frau Arna Strauch, convicted more succinctly of adultery, was sentenced to two years and four months. Both were deprived of citizenship for three years...