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Across West Germany, newspapers and radio stations broke the news with one simple phrase: "Sie kommen!" (They are coming!). All Germans knew what it meant. Eight years after war's end, the U.S.S.R. was sending home "the last" of the Germans still held in Russia as prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS: Homecoming | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...German dockworker peered through the drizzly fog that hung over the North Sea port of Bremerhaven last week and muttered: "Da kommen die Schweine [There come the swine]." Out of the mist lumbered two sharp-prowed, 6,500-ton icebreakers wearing huge Soviet flags on their sterns and the painted-over names"North-wind" and "Westwind" on their bows. Six years after the U.S. had lend-leased these $10,000,000 vessels to its wartime ally, the Russians handed them back, somewhat-the worse for wear and well dappled with rust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Icy Exchange | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Higgins took a look at another group of G.I.s and clucked her tongue. She wrote from Frankfurt that some soldiers in the U.S. occupation forces are brawling, raucous boors who whistle and shout "Kommen Sie her" from street corners at every passing fraulein. Such carryings-on may have been understandable right after the war, wrote Correspondent Higgins, but now it is inexcusable, and hardly the way to make friends and influence the Germans against the Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maggie v. the Boors | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...have happened and cabled it off at press rates just in time to catch the first whisky sour at the Carlton bar . .. We spent a month recently in Frankfurt and other parts of Germany. We must confess that not once did we hear a soldier shout 'Kommen Sie her'. . . Yet Miss Higgins, pausing briefly in her flight to elsewhere, is right in the thick of things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maggie v. the Boors | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...program follows: Prelude and Fugue in D minor Bach Elevazione Zipoli Pavane Byrd Gagliado Schmid Adagio (Sixth Symphony) Widor Menuet Gothique Boellmarn Choral Improvisations Karg-Elert a. Jesu Geh Voran b. Est ist der Hell uns Kommen her. Tocate (Fifth Symphony) Widor

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVES APPLETON RECITAL TODAY | 12/11/1923 | See Source »

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