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...Hier ist Ollenhauer." A few hundred mildly curious villagers heeded the Achtung, listened to Ollenhauer in a chatty little speech about reunification, while nervous border guards watched through field glasses to see if the Communist Volkspolizei across the border thought Ollenhauer, was going to attempt reunification on the spot. Nothing happened: the barriers did not fall. Ollenhauer, jolly and beaming, got back into his Mercedes and resumed his pursuit of an issue, any issue, that would stand up against Konrad Adenauer and the sausages...
...covered with propaganda posters of the Soviet-backed Socialist Unity Party (SED) attracted unusual attention in the heart of bomb-shattered Dresden in the Russian zone. Plastered squarely in the center of the billboard was a red poster bearing the slogan: "Wir haben kein Papier, aber wir sind auch hier" (We have no paper, but we are also here). The poster was signed by the anti-Communist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Firemen soon tore down the poster, but thousands of Dresdeners had enjoyed a good chuckle...
There Is Much To Do. The school bell rang. The little girls bustled onto their narrow benches. Sister Elizabeth called the roll. Instead of "Hier!", the little girls answered "Ici", and giggled at the unfamiliar sound. Then Sister Elizabeth spoke in French, translating phrase by phrase into the Alsatian German dialect...
...afternoon, in a village near Cassino, German soldiers walked up to the door of a battalion command post, clicked heels, saluted snappily and called out: "1st der Herr Hauptmann da?" The answer was always the same: "Ja, der Hauptmann ist hier." Each German strode confidently into the building-and out of the war, a prisoner...
...moment we were off, straight down the road as if we had nothing about which to worry. Off the road a little way we observed a grave, placarded with a small square wooden sign on which was a cross and the words, "Hier Ruhen Soldaten USA" (Here lie soldiers of the U.S.A.). A few yards farther on we saw a big cross with a German helmet stuck on it like a scarecrow...