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...next classroom. Teacher Nancy Albaugh, an Ohio girl who customarily works in the U.S. Air Force dependents' school in Wiesbaden, is getting 25 enthusiastic German children to tell about the days of the week in English. Later, the classes mix, sing alternate stanzas of Go Down Moses and Nach grüner Farb, mein Herz verlangt. After two weeks of Americans' visiting Germans, the German children come to the American school for a fortnight, and so it goes all year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: Getting Off the Base | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

Even a decade ago, so successful a Drang nach Osten seemed hardly possible, for twice in 30 years calamitous wars wiped out Germany's stake in the lands curving about the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Yet in ten years, West German exports to Greece, Turkey and the Middle East have jumped from less than $10 million a year to $500 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: WEST GERMANY INVADES THE MIDEAST | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Roman Catholic Church is identified with nationalism in Poland as it is in few other countries; Poland became Catholic to avoid being gobbled up. When the pagan Polish ruler Mieszko I was attacked A.D. 963 by Saxon Warlord Count Wichman, Mieszko cannily guessed that this early German Drang nach Osten would disguise itself as a Christian missionary enterprise. To undercut this excuse, he married a Bohemian Catholic princess, took himself and country to the Church of Rome in 966. The office of primate, which in many countries degenerated into a mere courtesy title, remained in Poland (as in Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cardinal & the Commissar | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

WEST GERMANY, encouraged by the success of a $40 million trade compact signed with Red Bulgaria, announced "direct consultations" with the Kremlin; Ruhr manufacturers dreamed of the good old days when Hitler's Drang nach Osten sent 12% of all German exports off to the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Trade with the Communists | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...half a century Germany's diplomats and big industrialists, deep in Drang nach Osten (Drive to the East), talked of a Berlin-to-Baghdad railway. Kaiser Wilhelm II rode through the sweltering streets of Damascus one day in 1898 to tell the citizens that Moslems "may rest assured that at all times the German Emperor will be their friend." Hitler took up where Wilhelm II left off: by the time the Nazis invaded Russia, Germany was dominating the markets of Turkey and Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Enter, Friend | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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