Someone found this book in the library at work and they let me keep it because I found it so amusing. It is a children's book from 1959 titled "The First Book Of West Germany
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Uhm... "hills" would be "Hügel". "Wälder" are "woods" o.O; But I suppose the author meens that the woods are on the hills ^^°
It is as if an unseen wall separated East Germany from the rest of the country, keeping the German people apart. This imaginary wall is spoken of as the Iron Curtain.
And that unseen wall became a real one on 13th August 1961. Funny, that already in 1959 it was seen as an "unseen wall".
It was all I could do to resist putting aside comments throughout this excerpt. Russians! Boo hiss! France Britain, and the United States. Yea! The Good Guys! *pulls out flag and waves furiously*
I really see it that way!! They completely ruined the East economically: destroying factories even more and not rebuilding anything else, forcing there communistic system on the East, even if the people didn't want it and then giving back (or even selling back!) an economically ruined country, where over 40 years people learned to live and work completely different and leaving us with all the
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I thought of you when I was typing the references to the "mountains." Heh!
It is so obvious that this was written before we became such a jaded society. We're the good guys--the "free" West. They're the bad guys--the "enslaved" Communist East. Simple.
Hehehehe! That made my evening. XD You can definitely see that it's written by an American, in some way, or at least by a very idealistic person of the West... Fun. XD
I did a quick search. He is apparently an award winning journalist who was just starting his career as a freelance author when this was published. Very much the young idealist.
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Uhm... "hills" would be "Hügel". "Wälder" are "woods" o.O; But I suppose the author meens that the woods are on the hills ^^°
It is as if an unseen wall separated East Germany from the rest of the country, keeping the German people apart. This imaginary wall is spoken of as the Iron Curtain.
And that unseen wall became a real one on 13th August 1961. Funny, that already in 1959 it was seen as an "unseen wall".
It was all I could do to resist putting aside comments throughout this excerpt. Russians! Boo hiss! France Britain, and the United States. Yea! The Good Guys! *pulls out flag and waves furiously*
I really see it that way!! They completely ruined the East economically: destroying factories even more and not rebuilding anything else, forcing there communistic system on the East, even if the people didn't want it and then giving back (or even selling back!) an economically ruined country, where over 40 years people learned to live and work completely different and leaving us with all the ( ... )
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It is so obvious that this was written before we became such a jaded society.
We're the good guys--the "free" West. They're the bad guys--the "enslaved" Communist East. Simple.
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