Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kiesinger made a satisfactory witness for the defense. He conceded that he had heard Allied reports about German death camps but had dismissed the charges as "nothing but atrocity propaganda.""It was simply inconceivable to me," he said, "that such terrible things were happening. I knew Jews were being taken off. In my own house, a Jewish family was picked up and taken away, but I thought they must be put to work somewhere." Only in the final years of the war did he get the feeling that, in his words, "something terrible was happening...
...those critics, it seems inconceivable that the clues could not have been recognized. Everyone in Germany knew that the German Jews were being rounded up and herded away in a brutal fashion. German civilian firms supplied the ovens and other equipment for the camps. By 1943, Germans were widely cautioning one another not to complain about the Nazi regime, because otherwise "you might go up in smoke." Adolf Hitler, in fact, told the German people: "The end of the war will see the end of the Jewish race." On the other hand, it must be remembered the six extermination camps...
...length, a small army of actors, makeup men, hairdressers, set designers, wardrobe people, technicians and directors head out to make their film, and act out the admen's fantasies. Perhaps they will alight in an ancient West German castle, which was the setting for a recent Volkswagen commercial. Maybe the cameraman will strap himself to the back of a speeding motorcycle or scoot around in an electric wheelchair to achieve new whirling, eye-catching effects...
...Disadvantage. Competitive pressure prompted the invasion. At least a dozen U.S. securities firms have begun operating inside Germany in recent years, attracting increasing numbers of German investors to U.S. corporations. German banks, for whom securities' underwriting and trading is an important source of profit, found themselves at a disadvantage because they had to pay commissions to U.S. brokers when buying American stocks for clients...
Impressed by the strong reach of U.S. banks for global business, the Dresdner Bank has been expanding abroad in other ways. In 1965, it was the first large German bank to open a representative office in Manhattan. Last year it became the first German bank to join a major multinational banking combine when it helped to found the Societe Financiere Europeenne in Paris. The Dresdner's year-old Luxembourg subsidiary is thriving in the fast-expanding Eurobond and Eurodollar markets. Increasing its stake in Latin America, the bank last year bought an interest in local banks in Brazil, Chile...