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Despite the economic and political challenges, the 1950s were a fertile period for German culture. Music, cinema, and literature all flourished. In the realm of music, German Schlager, a style of pop music, became hugely popular. Films like ‘The Trapp Family’ and ‘The Sinner’ attracted large audiences. German literature, too, witnessed ...
Turner, Vera: Mannheim, Germany: 1950-1951. On an afternoon in mid-August 1950, emotions were running high as the troop transport, General George Goethels, slowly pulled into the port of Bremerhaven. Many of the 75 teachers abroad were feeling some anxiety at facing the unknown awaiting them as teachers for Dependent Schools in a war-torn ...
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Mar 26, 2006 · Germany's war children scramble to find their GI fathers. ⬤ public. By Colin Nickerson. March 26, 2006 / boston.com. BERLIN -- They were offspring of romance in the occupation era, born to German women who had flings with American GIs -- sometimes for love, sometimes for a moment's passion, and sometimes, in the hardest days immediately after ...
Photos #3A, 3B & #3C Source: Terry Burroughs, son of a veteran of Battery B, 580th AAA AW Bn Known Information: photos were at a kaserne in Munich that was occupied by US troops in 1945 soon after the end of WWII; unit stationed there at that time was Battery B, 580th AAA AW Bn; this same kaserne was also used by Battery B, 398th AAA Battalion which operated PX Depot #198 from a large ...
Mar 14, 2017 · In April 1945, the first UNRRA team entered the American zone of Germany, where agency representatives would eventually register between 6,000 and 7,000 displaced children, teenagers, and young ...
One month later, they were deported to the Majdanek camp. Kovno, Lithuania, February 1944. Pictured are Avram (5 years) and Emanuel Rosenthal (2 years). Emanuel was born in the Kovno ghetto. The children, who were deported in the March 1944 "Children's Action," did not survive. Their uncle, Shraga Wainer, who had asked George Kadish to take ...
Out of the approximately 95,000 U.S. Occupation babies born in Germany shortly after WWII, there were approximately 5000 of us, Post WWII Afro-German children or so-called Negro mulatto babies, better known in the United States as Germany’s “Brown Babies.”. In 1952, the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) deemed that we formed a ...
