Word: welt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Felix was trained to build shoes from scratch.Now he does repairs only, but sometimes that meansrebuilding a shoe from very little. On hisworkbench there is a an English calf-high bootwith the soles ripped off, the welt in tatters,only the upper remains. "This job will take morework, I don't make no money doing this, but I knowthis customer long time, sometimes you got to putin special effort, and then he tells other people,other people, other people, and I don't need toadvertise...
...their former oppressors and secret accusers brought to justice. Already many Germans are aghast over revelations of former spies -- and therefore traitors -- in their midst. Fearful of the divisive potential of "de-Stasification," some Germans have called for a limited amnesty. In an interview in the daily Die Welt, former Chancellor Willy Brandt said, "Those who abused their countrymen and enriched themselves must go before the courts . . . ((but)) let the others lie in peace." And while East Germany committed no horrors on the scale of the Third Reich, some Germans fear a replay of the turmoil associated with the purges...
...gray Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland, so lickspittle that it once published 26 photos of Erich Honecker in a single edition, lightened up with a fresh design and uncensored stories. The daily Berliner Zeitung shed its communist ties and became East Berlin's liveliest and most popular newspaper. Junge Welt, once a loyal youth tabloid, turned muckraker overnight...
...case with other East German newspapers. Junge Welt has lost more than half its 1.6 million subscribers, and collapse is imminent. Berliner Zeitung is a takeover target of powerful West German publishing houses. Regional newspapers from Leipzig to Rostock are in similar straits. "During the past few months, we were able to do what we wanted for the first time in our careers," says Oschmann. "We had freedom that we never had before. But it won't last...