Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trap and caught him one day; then they threatened to expose him unless he turned traitor. Redl turned, for eleven years served Russia as a master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason was discovered after war broke out in 1914: Russia knew the Austro-Hungarian and German war plans. Two fellow officers visited Alfred Redl one night, left him a loaded pistol. Alfred Redl took the hint, stood before a mirror and fired a bullet through his brain...
...called in the French and British ambassadors, handed them similar notes. Said the one to France: Russia would not "accept" the rearming of West Germany planned by the Atlantic pact powers. Furthermore, France was "responsible" for undermining the six-year-old Franco-Soviet non-aggression pact. Meanwhile, the Communist German East zone Volkskammer (Parliament) unanimously decreed penalties up to death by beheading for all Germans-West as well as East zone-who supported German rearming...
Barely a few days before, NATO deputies and defense chiefs had settled the sharpest issue: German participation in a Western European army. From France they had wrung assent to German regimental combat teams of 6,000 men each; in turn they had agreed to the French demand that these units be absorbed into divisions commanded by non-Germans...
...could "create my music only to my texts" because "both text and music in an unprecedented sense are based ... on the German language and the German spirit." Until the day in 1883 when he slumped over his desk in Venice, stricken with a fatal heart attack, he believed in himself as "the most German of the Germans...
...Escape to Adventure, a lusty, well-written narrative of daring and luck in carrying out cloak & dagger missions in Russia, Persia and Yugoslavia. Eric Williams' The Wooden Horse and Paul Brickhill's The Great Escape were both rattling good stories of daring British breaks from the same German P.W. camp...