Word: stahlhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dertinger is not likely to stir up much sympathy. A Prussian cadet, then a newspaperman, he became a jackbooted member of the jackbooted Stahlhelm (steel helmet) organization before Hitler came to power. After the war, though apparently not a Communist, he became their stooge, useful at keeping his fellow Roman Catholics in line. He was rewarded by a visit to Moscow for Stalin's birthday in 1950, a high Polish decoration only last month for having signed away to Poland all German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers, and a congratulatory telegram only a few weeks ago from...
...press and public sweated in open indignation while Soviet Zone newspapers fanned their ire with hot blasts of anti-American propaganda. One doughty West Berliner defied both the general's edict and the guns by taking his usual morning dip clad in trunks, a medieval cuirass and a stahlhelm (see cut). The beachhead he established was held. Last week, West Berliners were once again taking their ease at Wannsee each morning. The sharpshooters were getting up in the middle of the night to do their target practice in the small hours, when nobody wanted to swim anyway...