Word: platz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one morning last week a man approached a taxi driver in West Berlin and asked to be driven to the Senefelder Platz in the Soviet sector. The driver demurred, until the man offered a bonus of 20 marks ($4.76); then he consented. On the way, the passenger leaned forward and dropped a carton of U.S. cigarettes on the front seat. No sooner had the car stopped at the Senefelder Platz than two other men jumped in and seized the passenger, shouting: "At last we've nabbed you, you American cigarette racketeer." Driver and passenger were hustled...
Goodman started out his activities with a visit to the "House of Youth" on the Alexander Platz, where he was questioned by officials of the F. D. J. (Free German Youth). He was told he would be screened and could come back the next...
Goodman started out his activities with a visit to the "House of Youth" on the Alexander Platz, where he was questioned by officials of the F. D. J. (Free German Youth). He was told he would be screened and could come back the next...
...group of Soviet-zone Volkspolizei, with police dogs, had just arrived at the Potsdamer Platz. Their mission: to prevent Germans from the British sector from distributing leaflets in the Soviet sector. As the four U.S. buses slowly circled the Potsdamer Platz, the tense Volkspolizei were facing a scornful West Berlin crowd safe behind the border rail of the British sector. A bus tourist, Charles Myers of Kansas City, tried to photograph the scowling Volkspolizei. The police spotted him, rushed to stop...
Another Western device for exposing Communist tyranny was brilliantly successful last week. The West Berlin Publishers' Association erected on the Potsdamer-Platz a crude copy of the N.Y. Times electric news sign. The sign was in the British sector but it faced the Russian sector. Hundreds of East Berliners gathered across the Potsdamer-Platz to read unadulterated news. Enraged Communists turned fire hoses on the sign, then tried vainly to blot it out with strong searchlights. East Berliners went right on looking at the news. Sample bulletin: "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer labels Soviet-zone elections a fraud...