Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German technicians gathered in the long, yellow-walled conference hall were talking about the same thing: Why did I come here? Said a heavy-machinery expert from Hamburg: "I want to know why a Christian of one faith feels like a stranger in the church of another. If there is but one God, why must we worship Him in different ways?" A trade unionist from Essen asked whether "the churches can do anything to help bridge the gap between employer and employee." A shutter designer from the Rolleiflex factory in Braunschweig asked: "Why must so many community pastors be stuffy...
...splitting began in the days of the German occupation when Frenchmen, brooding over their surrender, began to wonder just how good their education was. Napoleon's laws setting up the public lycées, passed in 1806, still stood. But since then a hodgepodge of other schools had mushroomed about the original system. For the most part, the children of laborers and farmers rarely got as far as the lycees. Those who did, some Frenchmen began to think, received such an overintellectualized brand of instruction that they emerged unfit for the day-today lives that most of them would...
...Germany from Leevey, its American overlord. Zizendorf lives in a boarding house run by Madame Stella Snow, who symbolizes the eternal Germany of ruthless energy and strength. Among the other boarders are a hungry duke, a relic of the Kaiser-ruled past; a drunken census taker who personifies perennial German officialdom ready to serve any master; Herr Stintz, the typical "little man" whose futility is expressed in nocturnal tuba-playing, and Jutta, Zizendorf's cowlike mistress, who wants only the warmth of love...
...basic idea of The Cannibal, to present German life from the nightmarish viewpoint of a new Führer, is a good one, though Author Hawkes often mars it by long patches that are obscure in meaning and wild in language. Yet for all its fantasy and its irritating excesses, The Cannibal does sometimes approximate the flavor of postwar German life...
...does not find in "The German Catastrophe" any new or specially incisive explanations for what went wrong is Germany, but rather those with which we are most familiar: militarism, political irresponsibility, unemployment, and materialism. But the book is significant in its restatement of these well-known themes, because Professor Meineeke writes as a patriotic and respected German historian who spent the Nazi period in Germany...