Word: menbruch
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While the victorious Allies have marked V-E day each year with parades and speeches, the enormity of Germany's guilt and shame has imposed an anguished silence upon that country. Last week, 25 years after the Zusam-menbruch (collapse) of the Third Reich, West Germany's first Social Democrat Chancellor broke with tradition. In a 21-minute speech to the Bundestag, Brandt declared that "no one is free from the history he has inherited...
Twenty years ago, the Third Reich died amid the fiery rubble of conquered Berlin, having pulled into ruins much of the rest of the Continent as well. To day, Western Europe is prosperous and at peace. And yet, as the nations last week commemorated Hitler's Zusam-menbruch, the very way they went about it proved - for all the gleaming miracles of glass and stone - how wide spread are the new divisions that afflict Europe two decades later...
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