Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin collections in the Russian zone had a very different fate...
...biggest turnouts of voters since the rise of Hitler, Germans in Bavaria and Hesse (U.S. zone) last week went to the polls to elect local officials. Principal results: 1) the Communists, who had made the most active campaign, lost even more ground, getting only 2.8% of the Bavarian total, and 7.9% in Hesse; 2) the center parties (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) lost heavily to the rightists. Two explanations were offered. In Frankfurt, Metalworker Gustav Schmidt explained: "The city is full of people who have fled from the Soviet zone. After talking with them, I voted as far right...
...only a dew Germans knew of this institutions and nearly no Germans knew what happened there, but now all men in the Eastern part of Germany and in the Western too know, that more than 16 concentration-camps with more than 80,00 inhabitants exist in the Russian zone and yet another difference, the whole mankind was terrified about the abominations in this camps but this was only a fly to an elephant, what happens now. Nearly to men died in one camp on every day by hunger and strokes and other inhumanities, you must now not believe that this...
...read a lot of reports of the bizone and you will surely say, it must the awfully to live there, but life in the east-zone is twice so badly. For the money you get on the black-market in Leipzig one bread, you get in the bizone four and you see yourself, where life grown bitter, though in the bizone are much more displace persons than in the Russain zone, because an enormous part of our harvest is brought to Russia. On the end I must yet once say, that all I wrote, is the only truth...
When General Lucius D. Clay laid down his "goldfish bowl" policy on news from the U.S. zone in Germany, the press applauded. "In case of doubt," Clay told Army public-relations officers last November, "give out the information. Don't hold it back...