Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ransacked his collection of color photographs taken in the U.S. for illustrations. His pictures of rural and urban America, with its growing population at work and enjoying its new leisure, gave a quick but comprehensive review of the nation's burgeoning market. In" nine cities scattered through the Rhineland, the Ruhr and northwest Germany, industrialists and businessmen found it a fascinating report. After seeing it first in Frankfurt, business leaders asked for copies of the color slides for showings in every Chamber of Commerce in West Germany...
...sight of dark Moslem soldiers in their quiet streets last week bitterly reminded Germans of the Moroccans who took part in the 1919-30 occupation of the Rhineland (which Hitler called a plot against the purity of Germany), and of those who raped the Black Forest villages during World War II, finding their food and fun where they could. Some German women believe, whether or not it is true, that in those days one Moroccan raped a fraulein, then killed her by biting through her jugular vein. The French deny that Moroccans committed more rape than any other troops...
...primitive man, who automatically slaughtered all of his prisoners, and it quoted from I Samuel: "Thus saith the Lord of Hosts . . . Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not." The committee reported the exhortations of Germanicus as his legions poured into the Rhineland: "Slay, and slay on! Do not take prisoners...
...French were more impressed with Ike's plan as propaganda than as practicality, they had far less patience with Eden's notion of practicality. They pointed out sharply that the last experiment in demilitarized zones was the Rhineland; when Hitler marched back in, neither Britain nor France mustered the courage to oppose him. The French wanted no such tempting vacuums in the center of Europe...
Critics often accuse Konrad Adenauer of being content with a small Germany based on his own Catholic Rhineland, plus Bavaria. Well aware of this sentiment, Adenauer told "the millions of Germans who are forced to live separated from us, without freedom and without justice [that] you can always rely on us, because together with the free world, we will not rest until . . . you live peacefully united with us in one state...