Word: silesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Right v. Right. Bonn's policy, from the early days of Konrad Adenauer through the present regime of Ludwig Erhard, has never publicly changed. Official West German maps label Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia Zurzeit unter Polnischer Verwaltung (temporarily under Polish administration), and Germans still refer wistfully to Wroclaw as Breslau. Bonn argues that until a reunited Germany negotiates its final World War II peace treaty with the Big Four (as called for in the 1945 Potsdam Agreement), Germany's boundaries remain those of 1937-the year before Adolf Hitler began his Gross Deutschland annexations...
...revered as a saint of modern Judaism, and as one of the last towering figures of the German Jewish renaissance that produced such men as Freud, Einstein, Kafka and Martin Buber. Born in Prussia, he studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, and as a rabbi in Silesia, Dusseldorf and Berlin emerged as one of Germany's great articulators of Reform Judaism. When Protestant Theologian Adolf von Harnack declared Judaism to be a spiritually inferior faith in his The Essence of Christianity, Baeck replied with The Essence of Judaism. Baeck defended Judaism as a classical religion, and argued that...
...automobile and special trains, 250,000 Germans originally from Silesia poured into Cologne last week. Jamming open-air restaurants and Bierstuben, they swapped stories with old friends over Rhenish beer and schnapps beneath banners proclaiming "For Silesia." The occasion was the regular reunion of Germans expelled from Communist Poland after World War II. During a mammoth rally at fairgrounds on the banks of the Rhine, the gemütlich scene suddenly turned into a riot; stirred up by a rabble-rousing politician, the crowd nearly mobbed a German TV reporter who had suggested that Poland is doing well...
...mortems showed Wodehouse to have been unwise rather than unpatriotic. His political savvy, say friends, could comfortably be compressed in an aspirin bottle. The script of the controversial broadcasts, finally published in London's monthly Encounter in 1954, smacked more of Lower Smattering-on-the-Wissel than upper Silesia (where Wodehouse spent some time in a prison that had once been an insane asylum). Plainly, Wodehouse said nothing to support the Allied picture of the Nazis as brutes and sadists. During his stay in jail, Wodehouse reported, he had written a novel, read the complete works of William Shakespeare...