Word: verboten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alarm clocks then began ringing, and a siren wall went up. The loudspeaker replied to this with, "Communication between entries of Lowell House is strang verboten." Firecrackers started exploding, and a searchlight from a fourth or fifth story room began to sweep the courtyard...
Since war's end, no schoolchild in Berlin has studied history. The Allies had made the subject verboten in all Berlin schools. Last week, the holiday from history ended...
Very few Germans have any real remorse for 1939-45. "That was war," they say, and wave a hand to dismiss even the atrocities. They flock to Berchtesgaden by the thousand for pilgrimage climbs over Hitler's favorite mountain. You meet them even on the slopes-marked Verboten to Germans-around his chalet and eagle's nest eyrie. They turn stony faces to foreigners on the mountain as though the latter's mere presence on the sacred soil were sacrilege...
Emil Ludwig, best-selling biographer (Napoleon, Bismarck, Cleopatra, Roosevelt), whose books were once burned by the Nazis (he is a Jew), was again a banned author in Germany., This time he was verboten in the Russian zone for being too "militaristic...
...football team this fall allowed only the most general descriptions of injuries sustained by Harvard players to be published, causing complaints at times from every reporter who covered the squad. It seemed at the time that numerous meaty treatises on shoulder separations, inside ankle sprains and the like were verboten, but on sober post season reminiscence it doesn't seem to have made much difference. People still wrote "leg injury," and nobody seemed to care...