Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right-wing newspaper, the Neue Presse of Passau, added a few more accusations-that Brandt fought with the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War; that he served in the Norwegian army and even fired on German troops; and that after the war, Brandt referred to Germans as "criminals." Brandt sued for libel...
...Norwegian uniform-at the insistence of friends who were trying to keep him from being grabbed by the Gestapo and shot. He returned to Germany in 1945 as a Norwegian correspondent, with Norwegian citizenship and a Norwegian wife. But the citizenship was not entirely by choice: his German citizenship had been revoked by the Nazis in November...
...fair infighter himself, Willy Brandt countered last week that Adenauer's chief aide, Dr. Hans Globke, was a high official in the Nazi bureau that revoked Brandt's German citizenship. Snapped Brandt: "It is pure insolence that the expelled citizen of 1938 should apparently apologize for this to those who in 1938 expelled...
Month after month, West Germany's supercharged economy kept pumping out its ever-growing stream of exports. One result was inflation at home; another, angry grumbling abroad from trading partners whose currencies piled higher and higher in West German bank vaults. A remedy was apparent: an increase in the value of the West German Deutsche Mark to make German goods more expensive abroad (discouraging exports) and foreign goods cheaper for German importers (encouraging imports...
Chasing a fancy butterfly in the green wilds of Tanganyika 50 years ago. a German entomologist named Kattwinkel tumbled off a rocky ledge and nearly killed himself. When he regained his senses, he found himself in an anthropologist's dream world: an erosion-created rift with layer after layer of fossils, bones and ancient artifacts. The find was named Olduvai Gorge, and Kattwinkel's heirs ever since have been scrambling up and down its sun-baked sides in search of clues to man's earliest awakening...