Word: schlamperei
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Although 90% of its people are Catholic, the Ostmark is not today a good Catholic land. Vienna's most famed characteristic has long been "Schlamperei" (slackness), and probably no more than 40% of Austrians are practicing Catholics. In Vienna last week, good Catholics worshiped timidly under the eyes of police, who also watched narrowly those who read their church bulletin boards, pasted with posters urging them to marry in the church. In his palace Cardinal Innitzer switched on his radio, listened to an open-air rally at which 100,000 Nazis shouted "Pfui Innitzer!" and "Hang the black...
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