Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German invasion of Europe was at flood tide last week. Only this time, instead of carrying guns, the Germans clutched fistfuls of lire, francs, guilders, dinars, schillings. Some 5,000,000 of them are pouring south and west in an eager tourist flight from the greyer skies and industrial soot of their prosperous native land. "It is the fresh air and sunshine that we like best," gushed buxom, blonde Use Schultz on the beach at Ostia. "It is so wonderful to feel the sun scorching until it hurts." In Italy the Germans outnumber American tourists, though they do not outspend...
...than Americans. The French Riviera, Spain's Costa Brava and the Balearic Islands no longer satisfy the German wanderlust. Travel bureaus now offer all-inclusive air tours to Rhodes, the Canary Islands, Sicily, the Soviet Union and even a special round trip to Communist China. French and Italian tourist bureaus advertise regularly in German newspapers...
...German magazine Bunte Illustrierte recently reported that in France "scarcely any signs of resentment remain," that in Yugoslavia the tourist "even meets with much kindness," that in Italy he will be greeted enthusiastically-but should watch his luggage...
...better everywhere, suggests Bunte Illustrierte, never to talk about the war. But, surprisingly, reports Bunte Illustrierte, it is in neutral Sweden that the Germans "generally meet with mistrust." The old, often-repeated tale of German tourists shocking their hosts by saying they had "come to love" a place while serving as occupiers during the war, is no longer widespread. Tourist marks, like tourist dollars, are much too valued...
...change in attitude is perhaps best seen in The Netherlands. When the first groups of German tourists arrived in 1952, old resistance men painted walls and fron tierbarriers with the slogan: Deutsche nicht Erwünscht! (Germans not wanted), a variation of the Jews-not-wanted signs in Nazi days. This week the Dutch Tourist Bureau was complaining that it needs more money to make more propaganda to attract more Germans...