Word: reichstager
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...became chairman of the Berlin section of Germany's new Communist Party. At 28 she was the party's loudest voice in the Reichstag. One correspondent described her thus: "She's a sneerer and a snarler. She sits on the far left of the house, interrupting Stresemann, Ludendorff and Tirpitz with cries of Phooy. She is fat ... and addresses the house with a vaudevillian shimmy that is unique...
Generalissimo Winter. "Even Hitler didn't get crowds like this," I heard a grey little man in shirtsleeves murmur to his friend. Indeed, it was a crowd worthy of this highest German superlative. The 300,000 blanketed the whole rubble-strewn area before the Reichstag, choked every path through the Tiergarten, stood in neat, tight ranks between rows of planted cabbages in the little garden plots. A hot sun beat on the crowd; the air was heavy with sweat and whirls of dust from the sandy earth and the odor of cheap tobacco. A seven-year-old girl whimpered...
Most of the defendants were old hands at fighting Government charges and they had their countercharges ready. The indictments, they shouted, were "a monstrous frame-up ... an American version of the Reichstag fire ... a domestic counterpart of the criminal bipartisan attempts to turn the war in Berlin from cold to hot." They were timed, they said, to embarrass Henry Wallace's convention in Philadelphia (see Third Parties...
...Civilization. Spring has come early and generously to Berlin this year; the sweet-scented lindens touch fragrant fingers to form graceful arches. But Berlin's people breathe the dust of ruins-ruins that have a kind of awful majesty. There is the burned, bombed hulk of the Reichstag with the crows napping foolishly around the beheaded statues on the roof, and the icy stench of a tomb breathing over its bricked-up entrances. A few blocks away along the Wilhelmstrasse, the granite walls of the battered Reichs-chancellery are plastered with neat, wheedling Communist posters: "Mothers, for the happy...
Later, some 70,000 non-Communists stood before the old German Reichstag, listening to Socialist Leader Franz Neumann. Pointing to Berlin's historic city gate, on the border between the U.S. and the Soviet sectors, he cried: "There stands the Brandenburger Tor. One hundred years ago it was the border of Berlin. Now it is the border where freedom ends...