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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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plebiscite

for those Germans who died fighting the Poles during the plebiscite-related uprisings of 1920-1921

—p.55 Sentimental Germany (42) by Peter Schneider
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Kreisau Circle

he visits the estate

—p.54 Sentimental Germany (42) by Peter Schneider
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revanchism

the West's self-satisfied, ideologically motivated revanchism

referring the Republikaner, a xenophobic right-wing party

—p.51 Sentimental Germany (42) by Peter Schneider
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arrived in West Berlin just before November 9

[...] The couple owned a lake house in Berlin-Friedrichshagen, as well as a sailboat and even a surfboard; they owed their prosperity to a private glassworks. The two had waited years to be allowed to emigrate, and had finally arrived in West Berlin just before November 9. [...] it was all for noth…

—p.47 Sentimental Germany (42) by Peter Schneider
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another form of Aryanism

The Poles are pushed to such degrading convolutions as a result of the German immigration regulations [...] the Pole who presents his father's or his grandfather's National Socialist German Worker's Party card acquires all the privileges of a German citizen, while a compatriot whose father or grand…

—p.45 Sentimental Germany (42) by Peter Schneider