Word: deutschland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, the old national anthem that begins "Deutschland, Deutschland Ueber Alles" is forbidden precisely because the lyrics make reference to Polish territory. (The popular perception that the phrase "Germany over everything" was deemed too jingoistic is false; the song is a 19th century liberal anthem that refers to the sovereignty of the German nation over its constituent states...
...soccer fans trudged past me in Munich, I heard a group of them singing. Thinking of the patriotic euphoria after the U.S.'s ice hockey victory in 1980, and I strained to hear the words. Instead of "Deutschland, Deutschland Ueber Alles," I heard, "We're going to drink for seven days straight...
...press was among the first to benefit when freedom came to East Germany. Censorship fell with the Wall. Hard-line editors retired or were fired. The dull, 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...
...circulation was 1 million in 1989," says Reiner Oschmann, of Neues Deutschland. "Now it is half a million. I'm surprised that we managed to keep even that many, and we expect to have a further decline...
...that is trying to save the paper, but concedes that the job is nearly hopeless. ND's power in the past was based on its status as a party organ. "The circulation was artificially high in the old days," Oschmann says. "It was thought 'fit' to subscribe to Neues Deutschland even if it was never read. That, thank God, is no longer the case...