Word: nder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charter for the High Commission, published last week, cuts Allied interference in German affairs to a minimum. Except in emergencies, the commission will act only through the federal German government and the eleven Länder (state) governments. Occupation troops remain in their present zones, but henceforth may deal with the Germans only through a Lander Commissioner (appointed by the high commissioner of his zone). The new government will join the OEEC and sign an ERP agreement with the U.S. Instead of the past separate patterns in each zone, occupation policy will become uniform throughout Western Germany...
Last month, Western officials cautiously started to let some money pour into West Germany's economic pool. The Bank Deutscher Länder relaxed credit restrictions by lowering the rediscount rate for its member banks. West Germany's economic boss, Dr. Ludwig Erhard, announced an 8½-billion-mark investment program for the coming fiscal year...
Most Länder governments are nearly broke. One million among West Germany's 45,000,000 are unemployed. Typically, one-third of the new unemployed are in the building trades-precisely where Germans should be at their hardest work, providing roofs for the millions of homeless in cellars and bunkers. West Germany's living standard is rising; but at the same time, the gap between the wealthy few and the great mass of workers is widening ever faster...
...would be a bitter winter, and many people would die. Yet in disfigured Vienna and the eight other Bundesländer of Austria, men found cause for hope...
...floor of the cellar smoking for half an hour. Then the soldier with the bandaged head appeared, all grins, and announced in pidgin language: "Engländer und Amerikaner good, aber Partisanen kaputt"-indicating that only the Yugoslavs would be executed. At about 9 a.m. we were marched off to a cemetery where the Germans had established their headquarters. The whole town was in German hands by now, but the firing was heavier at the foot of the hills around the town. We stood for a while, watching the bandaging of the first German wounded. Suddenly I saw a Chetnik...