Word: schleswig
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...campaign year, the refugee vote is an irresistible temptation to demagoguery. There are more than 10 million refugees, expelled from Communist Eastern Europe in three great waves. The advancing Red army chased 650,000 from East Prussia and Mecklenburg; most of them settled in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, which has become known as the "poorhouse of Germany." Next came the 8,000,000 Volksdeutsche (German ethnic groups) expelled from Eastern Europe. The last wave started when two million hungry East Germans began fleeing across the border...
...bleak heathland of Schleswig-Holstein, since the war, witches have been abroad. In one village a woman has been accused of bewitching her neighbors' cows; schoolchildren in another village created a problem by ostracizing one of their classmates, whose mother, they insisted, was a witch...
...When Austrians and Prussians invaded Jutland, grabbed Schleswig-Holstein...
...most prominent and prosperous farmer in the district, former Mayor Johannes Steenbock occupies one of the handsomest houses in the tiny Schleswig-Holstein village of Bark. Its tall, sloping roof covers two attic floors and provides frequent shelter for refugee farmworkers streaming into Germany from the Russian-held East. The refugees, like Farmer Steenbock's large family, find plenty of room on the lower floor and seldom, if ever, visit the attics...
...potential danger to all those that value democratic principles" he is undoubtedly correct. However, it would be a gross underestimation of the democratic forces now at work in Germany, and I am convinced that after a successful restoration of the social and economic conditions in both Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein Germany is quite capable of dealing with people that "still look back on the day of Hitler with the stirring military parades." --CLAUS D. MAASS...