Word: thuringia
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...entire area-which includes the ore-heavy Erzgebirge and Harz Mountains, and stretches roughly from the Czech frontier across Thuringia to the borders of the U.S. and British zones-is tightly shut off from the outside world. It is heavily guarded by Red German police and by a special force...
...east zone's Humboldt University, observed the 200th anniversary of Bach's death with a speech entitled "Bach and Social Cohesion." The title was barely out of his mouth when one listener piped up, "What has that to do with Bach?" When Dr. Meyer remarked that Thuringia-born Bach was nowhere honored as much as in the Soviet Union, another bellowed, "Aha! we knew this was coming." More than 100, who had come to hear Bach's music, walked...