Word: verbotener
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...defense of Western Europe, proposed that the ex-soldiers should shine up their Iron Crosses and pin them on again. But be sure to remove the tiny metal swastikas that decorate all Iron Crosses issued in World War II, said the Bonn government; Nazi emblems are still verboten...
...allay French fears that German recruits might coalesce into a new, nationalistic Wehrmacht, EDC will integrate its units at the division level. There will be no German General Staff; goose-stepping is verboten. The main contributions to the proposed 43-division force...
...down rules for the kind of fancy-dress costumes school kids may wear during Fasching, the month-long Teutonic version of Mardi Gras. There must be no Red Indian and Negro minstrel costumes: "These are suppressed peoples whose fight for freedom would not be supported by such masquerades." Also verboten: cowboy outfits, which represent "materialist and imperialist tendencies." Recommended substitutes: "costumes of freedom-loving and progressive peoples like the Chinese, Bulgarians and Hungarians...
...mountain at Berchtesgaden. Allied bombers in a few seconds blasted a group of chalets below it (including one of Hitler's and several for smaller Nazis), but left unharmed Hitler's high-perched eyrie, with its wide view of the white-tipped Austrian Alps. Since then verboten territory to Germans, the Berchtesgaden villas have been a red-hot G.I. tourist attraction. Souvenir hawkers have stripped them, selling tiles from Hitler's bathroom to G.I.s at 5 marks ($1.20) apiece. Before handing back the mountainside to the Germans, the Army wanted to be sure that it would...
...same letter erased almost all restrictions on German industry. It authorized production of synthetic oil and rubber, aluminum, chemicals for peacetime use, and, in effect, wiped out the quota on steel output. Still verboten were atom bombs, heavy munitions, certain optical instruments, airplanes, warships...