Word: ost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before Hitler's conquering armies to safety in the U.S., returned to East Germany after World War II. as did his Communist friends Gerhart and Hanns Eisler,* to revile the country that had granted him asylum. "Kantor," as he was called, put out a highbrow Marxist review called Ost und West, and peddled the rest of his poison in the Soviets' German-language newspaper Tägliche Rundschau. The Tägliche Rundschau saluted Kantor, the saturnine lecturer on German literature at East Berlin's Humboldt University, as "a pioneer, a pathfinder of the future German democracy...
...morning of the day that I was taken into custody by the Volkspolizei of the East zone, I had worked in the Ost-Europa Institut. My pockets were well filled with notes, including references from the Russian Encyclopedia...
Late this summer a fishing boat set out from the German port of Husum. On board was scholarly Jürgen Spanuth, pastor of the Lutheran church in Ost Bordelum, a little village behind the North Sea dikes. Also on board were a diver, a public stenographer and assorted scientific equipment. The trip was costing Pastor Spanuth 150 marks a day and would use up most of his savings, but he thought the expense would be justified. He was after the biggest treasure of all, the glittering undersea remains of Atlantis, which he was convinced from his readings of Greek...