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Word: klagen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officially decreed in West Berlin, the city rocked instead to a deafening cacophony. East German loudspeakers responded with Communist marching songs. The klaxonfest might have gone on for hours but for the arrival of a carrot-topped youth clutching an eight-foot crucifix inscribed in white letters: Wir Klagen An [We Accuse]. With a bellow that brought half a dozen other young Berliners to his side, the lad, a 20-year-old factory worker named Dieter Bielig, raced to the Wall and brandished the cross at the fuming Grenzpolizei (border police). The West Berlin crowd, held back by police, roared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Unhappy Anniversary | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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