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Word: nervenkrieg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date, the Soviet Nervenkrieg has not moved one out of 25 American "dependents" to pack. Many have stopped boating on the Wannsee and buying antiques, have gone to work in German hospitals instead. "Do not be afraid!" the American licensed press told Berliners two years ago, urging them to vote against Communism. "The rumor has spread that the Americans and British will leave . . . How unfounded!" Berliners believed it and voted down Communism. Relying on the U.S., they are gambling with their lives, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain. A U.S. retreat from Berlin's ruins would mean that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: On a Sandy Plain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Only Lesson. Men & women like Annedore Leber may expect (at best) to be under arrest within 48 hours of any Western evacuation of Berlin. Until that day comes-if it does-they can continue battling to show the Russians that their Nervenkrieg has been far from an unqualified success-and to remind the Western powers that they are defending in Berlin something more than just 150,000 acres of this debris-laden Brandenburg plain. Is there anything else they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Bear of Berlin | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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