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...intensified. In the past two months alone, 29 cars - mostly luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW and Porsche - have been set ablaze in Berlin (police believe left-wing extremists are to blame). In a letter published online in January, a leftist radical group called BMW (Bewegung für militanten Widerstand, or Movement for Militant Resistance) admitted to having set eight cars on fire, as a protest, the statement said, against the restructuring of formerly low-income neighborhoods, which has led to higher rents and forced out poorer residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Berlin, a Gentrifying Neighborhood Under Siege | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...West Germany's noisy National Democrats, whose election successes in the late 1960s triggered fears of a Nazi revival, in recent months have adopted a new salute. It is an upraised hand with two fingers and thumb spread to form a W, standing for Widerstand (resistance). As last week's state elections in Schleswig-Holstein indicated, what the National Democrats are trying to resist is total obliteration. Though they polled 5.8% of the vote in the north German state in the 1967 elections, their latest effort attracted only an insignificant 1.3%. That is well below the 5% required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Adolf on the Skids | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...disagreeable taste for the more sensitive young people. . . . There should be no special measures necessary to enable a decent young man to accost a girl-provided the girl makes no resistance. [Ohne besondere Massnahmen käme es dann dazu, dass der anständige junge Mann ohne Widerstand auch ein fremdes Mädchen ansprechen könnte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Adam & Eve | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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