Word: konigsplatz
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...Munich's Konigsplatz, where storm troopers once goose-stepped, 40,000 Christians assembled last week in a gathering that dramatized for Germans both a saddening split and a heartening healing. The meeting was the ninth Congress...
...prayers began to rise last week around the 200-ft. steel cross in Konigsplatz, only about 1,000 East Germans were on hand. As a group they were beginning to look like a different kind of German. It was a difference that could be seen in little things-the nervous eagerness with which the director of the Reds' reception center greeted new arrivals, his small embarrassment at having to give them 30 marks' pocket money, the East Germans' skittishness at the approach of a Western newsman. Both East and West felt the urgency of the widening...
Said a Deputy, after the President had gone to the Konigsplatz to review some troops: "If we had music like that during the debates, would it perhaps soothe the savage breasts of the Communists...
...people cheered gladly, warmly and with spirit in startling contrast to the tardy efforts in the Reichstag ceremony. But even at this an observer was moved to remark: "One wonders, gazing upward, at the black, white and red standard of the German Army sharing honors on the historic Konigsplatz with the black, red and gold flag of the republic whether it was not the soldiers' fatherland and their wartime leader who were being cheered instead of the Republican Constitution...
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