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Word: rntner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plant vegetable gardens, though many parks had already been used for another purpose: the burying of Red Army dead. The Hotel Sacher, which had witnessed much of the monarchy's history and more of its amours, is now a British officers' club. In the Kärntner Strasse (Vienna's Fifth Avenue) the stores are gaping and shattered; at the Cathedral of St. Stephen, Nazi artillery and flames have left the foreparts of the choir and the high altar exposed to the sky. But its 500-year-old spire still rises above Vienna in slender majesty. Viennese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: An American Abroad | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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