Word: barracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...denial climaxed two months of sharply rising clamor against him. The affair had actually begun four years ago, when East Germany's Communist propagandists handed out barrack blueprints that allegedly carried Lübke's signature. Almost no one took the charges very seriously until last January, when Der Stern, West Germany's largest weekly magazine, published the testimony of a U.S. handwriting specialist that the signature was indeed Lübke's. The country's restless students seized on the white-haired old man as a symbol of all that they find wrong with...
...should take his case to the people. All three parties in the Bundestag issued strong statements of support for him. German political leaders knew, after all, that Lübke had been no Nazi and that he had even spent 20 months in Nazi prisons during the 1930s. The barrack plans that he signed were probably for forced laborers at such installations as the German rocket facility of Peenemünde. Those places were no vacation spots, but they were a far cry from the death camps of Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann...
...peasants must erect their own thatch-roofed houses, dig a protective ditch around the site, and crown it with a dirt wall and barbed wire. The 70 families that "volunteered" were given land already cleared by bulldozers; those who had been reluctant to leave were moved into barrack-like structures at the edge of the forest...