Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their daughter out of Dresden. When he married again, Hermann chose blowzy, peroxide-blonde Trude Mirtsching, a stenographer with excellent Soviet connections. A year later, conniving Hermann had worked up from a minor political boss to be Deputy Chairman of the Economic Commission, forerunner of the East German government...
Last fall the new East German government made Hermann a Deputy Prime Minister. Trude was delighted. She made no secret of her ambition to be the First Lady of Germany. The high point for the Kastners was a Russian invitation to a vacation in the Crimea...
Since the days of the Kaisers, German civil servants (Beamten) have been a privileged caste. "The Beamte doesn't have much," the saying went, "but he has it for life." The civil service was notably honest and efficient, but it looked upon itself as the masters of the people, not as their servants. Wrote one angry German critic in 1909: "The sergeant-types, who properly belong on the drill field, have gradually penetrated to the highest ranks of public administration." The authoritarian civil service survived the Weimar Republic, was made to order for Hitler...
...vetoing the income tax law, HICOM seemed to be breaking its own promises to give the Germans economic freedom. Asked one angry German politician: "What have taxes got to do with Allied security, or the elimination of Naziism and militarism?" Whether the Americans or the Germans were right about the economic effects of the tax law, it seemed to be the Germans' right to make the decision...
...begin the consecration ceremony. Seventeen ritual questions were asked. Monsignor Jachym answered firmly, "Credo-I believe," or "Volo-I am willing." As Cardinal Innitzer stood ready for the presentation of mitre, crozier and gloves, Monsignor Jachym broke into the ceremony with a dramatic announcement, first in Latin, then in German. "After meditating through the entire night," he proclaimed, "I do not feel able to undertake the bishop's office. You will, as priests, understand-I feel not worthy enough." Then, while his fellow clergymen and the congregation watched in amazed silence, the distraught monsignor, still clad in bishop...