Word: iron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Farther north, in Wolfsburg, where the giant Volkswagen factory turns out 4,000 cars each working day, Mayor Werner Schlimme reels off half a dozen other examples of spontaneous East-West contacts that have occurred since the Iron Curtain lifted. "One day in November, a couple of garbage men from Klotze came over and saw one of our municipal garbage trucks at work," he says. "They thought it was wonderful how it lifted the cans and emptied them automatically." Garbage men from the two sides, separated by politics and technology but united in language, began talking trash. The West German...
Really, it would be impossible to give credit for the disintegration of the Iron Curtain to any one person. That would be akin to declaring one person responsible for the American or French Revolutions...
...time no less proud of being Jewish. One image that sticks in my mind is that of my father, himself a lawyer, walking to Jewish High Holy Day services in formal attire, top hat and all, carrying his prayer book in his right hand, for all to see; the iron cross "first class," which he had won in the First World War, pinned to his frock coat. "They wouldn't dare lay a hand on me," he used to say. He turned out to be one of the lucky ones. He was arrested; then released, on condition that...
...early part of my past left me with an insight I have found useful, both as a historian and as a human being: there are evil people who won't be deterred from their nefarious doings by what might be considered by the self-deceived as special circumstances. His iron cross, first class and all, did not save my father from arrest. The fact that my school had close links with France did not prevent it from getting rid of its Jewish students...
...graver concern is the growing resentment among workers and peasants, who are increasingly strapped by the government's austerity policies. "We are not demanding democracy and freedom in the same way as those naive students who laid down their lives," said a worker at Beijing's state-owned Capital Iron and Steel plant. "However, our families are waiting for food. If we cannot receive our wages, we will certainly become indignant...