Word: plauen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...breakthrough agreements on the future of Germany, political leaders are still running behind events. More quickly than anyone could have imagined, East Germany is being absorbed in the Western market economy. From travel-agency offers in Frankfurt-on-the-Oder to used-car lots filled with Western automobiles in Plauen, the deutsche mark life has arrived. The changes are good and bad, sometimes even ugly, but East Germany, once Erich Honecker's drab land of barracks communism, will never be the same...
...Excerpts from a long bill of particulars: V-weapons are being made at Sömmerda near Erfurt, at Halle, at Nordhausen and in the South Harz; fuel for V-weapons at Leuna; aircraft at Gotha; machine-gun parts at Leipzig; tank chains at Plagwitz; Red Army uniforms at Plauen...
...only 48% of the total votes cast. The other 52% was shared among the Liberal and Christian Democratic parties. Most striking fact: the center of SED support had shifted to the country; the land reform program had pulled an unexpectedly heavy leftist vote. In industrial cities like Dresden, Leipzig, Plauen, Zwickau, traditional cradles of German leftism, the labor vote split wide open. But power remained in the hands of the Russians and their pet party, which, will control 22,494 out of Saxony's 29,356 municipal offices. In Thuringia's elections this week...
...came a rash of rumors and "reports." The dizziest to reach print was whelped by the unreliable "Free German Press Service," operated in Stockholm by Germans who call themselves "emigres" F.G.P.S.'s latest gasp: The "Hitler" who was in Berlin was not Hitler at all. It was a Plauen grocer named August Wilhelm Bartholdy, whose face was his misfortune: he looked like the Führer. Grocer Bartholdy, said F.G.P.S., had been carefully coached and combed, then sent to Berlin "to die on the barri cades. ... He will act as Hitler's trump card, creating a hero legend...
...Ninth Army captured Magdeburg (pop. 294.000) and 708,000,000 marks in the Magdeburg branch of the Reichsbank Plauen (pop. 111,000) fell to the Third Army...