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[5] [6] Part of the contribution to this was the similar image of the German work ethic perceived by American GIs in the postwar period: "Many West Germans are serious about their duties, keeping to their timetables, and do not enjoy many tea or coffee breaks". The German railroad system, which usually runs late, notoriously challenges this ...
As Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II, mass rapes of women took place both in connection with combat operations and during the subsequent occupation of Germany by soldiers from all advancing Allied armies, although a majority of scholars agree that the records show that a majority of the rapes were committed by Soviet occupation troops. [1]
A Minnesota minister was tarred and feathered when he was overheard praying in German with a dying woman. [97] Questions of German American loyalty increased due to events like the German bombing of Black Tom island [98] and the U.S. entering World War I, many German Americans were arrested for refusing allegiance to the U.S. [99] War hysteria ...
Before 1993, women were rarely included in clinical trials. Today, the medical field still doesn’t know how well many drugs and devices work for women.
Not until the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo had East Germans won more medals than their West German counterparts. Four years later, the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City hosted two separate German teams with a common flag and anthem, in which East German athletes surpassed the West German (FRG) medal count: the GDR, a country of 17 million, won nine gold ...
A German federal court on Tuesday denied two seriously ill men direct access to a lethal dose of a drug, arguing that the country's narcotics law stands in the way and that they could turn to ...
Women and men are both more likely to be arrested for less serious property crimes, but men are more likely than women to be involved in violent crime. [2] Since 1960, while arrests in total have decreased, women have become a higher percentage of those arrests , partly due to an increase in drug-related arrests .
As drivers hoard gas, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission offered the following tip: "Do not fill plastic bags with gasoline."