Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western side of the wall the street is cluttered with signs: "Freedom Must Not End Here," pictures of President Kennedy, of Peter Fechter, killed on the wall, and of an unknown refugee from the East who was shot near Warsaw Bridge. On the house walls are, large blown-up photographs of refugees and of a Russian tank suppressing the abortive East German revolution of 1953, all clearly visible in the East...
...finally got under way this summer, Wolff had been Heinrich Himmler's closest confidant and his chief liaison officer to Hitler, had "supported and guaranteed" their plans to exterminate the Jews, and, between July and September of 1942, supplied the boxcars that took 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghettos to the ovens of Auschwitz...
Died. Archbishop Josef Gawlina, 71, leader of the Polish Catholic community in Rome, who was driven from Warsaw by the Communists in 1947; of a heart attack a few days after climbing the steps of St. Peter's, though weary and infirm, to speak on Marian devotion before the Vatican Council...
...White Rose. Most touching and unsung of all were the children and youths who resisted the Nazis. Helmut Huebener, 17, was guillotined for writing some 20 pamphlets denouncing the Nazi destruction of Warsaw and Rotterdam. Hans and Sophie Scholl, a handsome brother and sister who seemed outwardly to be the outdoor-loving prototypes of Hitler youth, organized an underground at the University of Munich. Under the romantic name of the White Rose, they authored pamphlets eloquently attacking the regime. After one particular Nazi outrage, they openly distributed the leaflets around the university, even scattered them from rooftops in the vain...
...satellites' few quality products, such as Hungarian salami or Prague glassware, then take them back West. But the more standard practice is for travelers from Eastern Europe to finance their trips by bringing back Western goods. Nylons from the U.S. will bring $5 or $6 in Warsaw. Professional Polish operators regularly swing far bigger deals. Gangs travel two or three times a week to the Baltic port of Gdynia, where they buy up to 100,000 ballpoint pen refills at a time from returning seamen and resell them at a profit of 300% to 400% . Similar trade flourishes...