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Word: oder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were put to work on a Soviet collective farm. Mieczyslaw's father wrote later that he had joined General Anders' Polish army. Years went by. The war ended and Mieczyslaw and his mother were moved to a village near Breslau, in the German lands east of the Oder-Neisse which the Russians had added to Communist Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Mr. America | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...amputated. But Schumacher rose from his sickbed to barnstorm Germany in the country's first free elections since the Weimar Republic. His program: all-out nationalism. His voice, stabbing and snarling, demanded return of the Saar (grabbed by France) and the lands east of the Oder (grabbed by Russia), demanded an end to reparations and occupation. The voters turned him down-by a narrow margin. The task of establishing a new German state "fell not to Socialist Kurt Schumacher but to conservative, commonsensical Christian Democrat Konrad Adenauer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Last Nein | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...stand, and announced that he too thought that the four big powers should confer on Germany. He attached three stipulations apt to prove sweet to Germans and bitter to Stalin: 1) genuinely free elections in the Soviet zone; 2) no "neutralizing" of the new Germany; 3) revision of the Oder-Neisse (Polish) frontiers. But he would go right ahead with the contract for West German integration with the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Cracks in the Road | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

School No.1 cautions the West not to reject Russia's offer solely on grounds which the Russians can do something about, but the West cannot. Thus, Russia might permit free elections, and at a later date hand back the land east of the Oder-Neisse to sweeten the bargain. Then what would the West do? School No. i argues, in effect, that Russia may now be making a tactical retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Two Schools of Thought | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...sample of this feeling: West German newspapers frequently refer to the Soviet zone as "Middle Germany," meaning that East Germany, which Germans eventually hope to get back, is what lies beyond the Oder-Neisse, in satellite Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Two Schools of Thought | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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