Word: karlshorst
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...Russians last week staged a boosters' get-together. At Karlshorst, some 40 German administrators of Germany's Russian zone discussed progress and problems with 30 Soviet colleagues. There were three days of dinners, concerts, ballets and pep-talks. With Babbittical zeal, Marshal Georgi Zhukov strove to show the delegates that theirs was the greatest little zone in all of Germany. Said he: ". . . Our zone will, by virtue of its own achievements . . . command respect and assume a position of leadership...
Potsdam's End. Clearly, the Russians, still yammering at the Western powers for coddling Germans, were promoting German good will toward Russia. At the Karlshorst conference, the German delegates got Zhukov's word that by year's end removals of industrial equipment would cease. Declared the Marshal: "Stalin has said we did not intend to destroy the German people. . . . We are now bent on aiding [Germans] in reconstruction...
...debris 72 movie theaters kept open; they held high priority in air-raid repair. A flower show in the capital featured half a million tulips. The Nazi Party stepped up weekend sports; Berliners had a choice of boating on the Wannsee, trotting races at Mariendorf, steeplechasing at Karlshorst, football, tennis and hockey matches. The radio urged: "The human body and soul need the stimulating reactions of the laughing muscles. He who cannot laugh lives in vain...
...Sunday when Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List's troops rolled into Greece and Yugoslavia, Berliners spent a normal wartime Sabbath. They strolled the streets, attended the cinema, watched Germany defeat Hungary at soccer, went to the races at Karlshorst. They bought extras, read the headlines, glanced at the official Nazi pronouncements, threw the papers away...