Word: tlich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German-language newspaper argued politics and were kept from quarreling by matriarchal Grossmama ("her strength lay in her gentleness"). At mealtimes, as many as 30 sat around Grossmama's huge table to eat her Sauerbraten, Hasenpjeffer, herring salad and Torten and Kaffee stollen. "We had a gemütlich upbringing," says Traubel. "Our theory was 'lucky is the person who is happy...
There were other signs that Germany's Christmas would be far from gemütlich. French factories, even those working on German war orders, got an unwelcome holiday vacation of two weeks in the form of a shutdown to save coal. In Hungary the food situation was so acute that hunters were permitted to use precious gasoline driving to the woods in taxis. The Reich is so short of doctors that it is advertising for more physicians in the occupied countries. The overworked doctors in Germany itself have been warned not to prescribe iodine, aspirin or diets with extra...