Word: sippenhaft
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...classmates and everyone else in Germany know a word nastier than a possible question by a New York reporter. The word is Sippenhaft, and it means, roughly, "family liability." It was widely used in Hitler's day when men, women & children were punished because they had anti-Nazi relatives...
...State Department does not believe in Sippenhaft, but its position in the case of Hilde Speer will convince a lot of Germans that it does...
...said the judges: to throw out Frau von Ribbentrop's contract on such reasoning would be tantamount to Sippenhaft. Freely translated, Sippenhaft means the arrest or punishment of relatives for offenses done by another of the family-an old practice of Hitler's and Stalin's. The court's order: Otto must hire Cousin Rudolf within two years, make him a partner in another two years. By that time, January 1956, the learned court predicted, Western civilization will no longer be scared away or horrified by the name of Ribbentrop...
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