Word: reich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years before retiring in 1972. Co ordinator of programs under the 1963 Franco-German Reconciliation Agreement from 1969 until his death, Schmid bitterly regretted his late entry into statecraft: "I believed earlier that one should stay away from politics because one could so easily be dirtied. Then the Third Reich arrived, and I asked myself: Who is actually responsible...
...Could we haf some colt air in de back?" --and suddenly, Hercules saw it: in another day, this man could have been a Reich Marshal. But it was an ugly thought, it all happened too soon to be sure, and Hercules shelved it till later. He decided to ask Arnold about his latest movie. Conan the Barbarian. Shooting was delayed until spring. Arnold said, because of his various commitments. "It could be that I'm doing another project before then, because I just got a script that was very good. It's called "The Jayne Mansfield Story...
...another day, he could have been a Reich Marshal...
Such scenes can best be conveyed by the use of the word decadence, whose reality I first encountered in Weimar Germany, and which so easily turned into Hitler's Third Reich. In England they have coincided with the decline of British power and influence in the world, and the transformation of an empire on which the sun never set, into a ramshackle and absurd commonwealth in which it never rises. Whereas our grand fathers found their heroes in empire builders celebrated by Rudyard Kipling, we have had to make do with expertise in espionage celebrated by Ian Fleming...
...downfall of the Third Reich, however, did not halt the devaluation of gypsy lives. Though West Germany paid nearly $715 million in reparations to Israel and various Jewish organizations, gypsies as a group received nothing. In 1952, when the new West German government offered to pay survivors five deutsche marks (worth roughly $1.20) for each day they had spent in the camps, many illiterate gypsies simply signed away their claims for compensation in exchange for trifling sums. Gypsy activists have uncovered a case of a woman who received $10 for the death of her baby in Auschwitz...