Sentences with phrase «east germans»

The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial attitudes among East Germans with a tertiary degree that have experienced a particularly strong ideological indoctrination.

Clearly, West Germany's capitalist system produced better results for its people — and only recently have East Germans begun to prosper after many years of freedom.

The model has been revived from the years shortly after the Berlin wall fell, when it was a favorite among the East Germans who found themselves newly introduced to the bounties of capitalism.

Charles Poliquin once said during a coaching course that the East Germans tried to find boxers with type 2 fibers in their upper bodies and type 1 in the legs.

As thousands of Hungarians and East Germans flooded through, the game was up for communism.

In 2009 Der Spiegel published an article which found half of East Germans were sympathetic to the former communist dictatorship.

He was one of a few East Germans who would start for the first unified German team.

Drawn in the same group as their neighbours, the East Germans - with their outdated blue shirts with GDR emblazoned on the front - upset the form book by beating their counterparts from the West 1 - 0 in the final game to top the group.

Sure, we all knew the Russians and East Germans were cheating.

If the East Germans and the Russians are bumping their heads against a wall, it is one that they built themselves.

The East Germans hated her because they thought she was a capitalist, and the West Germans hated her because they thought she was a Communist.

Soviets can wink, Cubans can shuffle their feet, East Germans can lower their eyes and nod.

Many former «Ossies» (former East Germans) resent the «Wessies» for thinking that they know better about everything, and many East German youth are contemptuous of their elders for supporting or tolerating the old system and not preparing them for the new.

However, according to Deutsche Welle's Marcel Fürstenau, many East Germans still feel like second - class citizens in the united Germany.

It's for reasons like this that a German documentarian named Ulli Wendelmann, known for hard - hitting exposés on the German prison system and Russia's oligarchy, recently filmed a documentary examining the oddball marriage between the New York startup and the former East German factory.

There was plenty of precedent for this, as Helmut Kohl had paid one Deutschmark for every worthless East German Ostmark at reunification, and it caused a serious inflationary burden in the Federal Republic, though it was generally assimilated by the force and the executive and engineering quality of the German manufacturing industries.

Keeps its sales clerks in a state of enforced rapture through policies vaguely reminiscent of the old East German Stasi.

«When I was a young soldier, it was T72 tanks and T60 tanks rolling across the then East German plain.

And remember, this could all be happening without East German and Soviet missiles aimed at us as they were under Reagan.

Her family took extensive trips throughout the United States, and as a young woman she lived for two years in a Bavarian village a stone's throw from the East German border.

The new east german stasi / homeland insecurity spies / monitors EVERYONE, not just the super cultists!

Grondin has done substantial archival work to settle what the book's jacket calls «the facts of Gadamer's life»: upbringing, schooling, teachers, degrees, appointments, major publications, and other signal events (Gadamer's early illness, his two marriages, his arrest by East German police).

The editors also argued for de facto recognition of the East German communist regime in the Berlin crisis (August 30, 1961).

Such was the case with the former neo-Nazi leader Ingo Hasselbach, who reports that the East German National Socialist skinhead movement was born of disaffected but essentially apolitical youths who discovered Nazism only when the state and other hated authority figures labeled them as «neo-Nazis.»

That fall Robert Kennedy, still eager for intelligence on King and now fearful that Hoover would reveal that the president's wayward lust had led him to the bed of an East German woman who surfaced in the Bobby Baker scandal, authorized the wiretaps on King that uncovered evidence of King's sexual infidelities, which Hoover then tried to use to blackmail and discredit him.

Some Germans still see themselves as East German or West German, others see themselves as liberal or conservative, but the church, he says, should be middle ground.

When an interviewer asked the pastor of one of the churches in Leipzig that had provided the space, the inspiration and the preparation for the East German revolution of November 1989 what the theological basis for his contribution was, he answered that it was «Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Latin American liberation theology.»

The East German Church and the End of Communism.

William J. Everett takes up the East German case in the context of a wider study of the relationship of covenantal theology to social life, with comparative analyses of India and America.

Burgess points out that theologians almost never commented on the radical militarization of East German (and Soviet) society, although paramilitary training was a part of every school program.

This year the questions focus on Luther and the East German socialist state, Luther and the Jews (there's no justifying word for that relation), the peasants, women (he loved Katie but, it is being rumored, was not a modern feminist) and the like.

The East German version uses skinless sausages, supposedly invented out of necessity when sausage skins were scarce in the early era of post-war rationing.

I volunteer & foster with the south east German shorthaired pointer rescue, so i would nominate them!

SWIMMING — The East German women's team set four world records, but Americans continued to dominate the men's events as the U.S. look the team title 178 to 86 for second - place Great Britain, at the second World Aquatics Championships in Cali, Columbia (page 8).

The book, which was excerpted in SI's Jan. 21 issue and released last month by Simon & Schuster, is a mesmerizing account of the East German sports juggernaut and the athletes who flourished under the system — and at the same time were imprisoned by it.

He was in Germany working on Thrown Free, a book he wrote with SI special contributor Anita Verschoth about East German discus thrower Wolfgang Schmidt.

Three days later Griffith ran a scorching third leg on the women's 4 X 100 - meter relay, which put the U.S. out of reach of an East German team running without Drechsler.

At the 1976 Summer Games two of the top female swimmers in the world — an American and an East German — met.

The world amateur hockey championships, to be held at Colorado Springs next month, have been sadly diminished in stature by the withdrawal of the Soviet Union in protest against the refusal of NATO's allied travel council to grant visas to the East German hockey team.

East German EVELIN SCHLAAK bettered her own junior world record with a discus throw of 196» 10» at the European junior championships in Duisburg.

«In the old days the East German sports federation could make an exception in a case like that, and I might have done both,» he says.

And yeah, I'm old enough to remember when the Olympics were for amateurs only (even though we all knew the East German women were really men).

After retiring from the professional game, former East German international Jurgen Croy became City Commissioner for Education, Culture and Sports in his hometown of Zwickau, remaining in the post for ten years.

The first goalkeepers to win the West German and East German variations of Player of the Year award did so in the same season - Borussia Dortmund's Hans Tilkowski and Leipzig's Horst Weigang doing so respectively in 1965.

Despite winning the East German Cup in 1967 and 1975, the dominance of teams like Dynamo Dresden and FC Carl Zeiss Jena restricted Croy's opportunities to shine in European competitions, which partly goes someway to explaining his partial anonymity in the West.

On the other side of the wall, Jürgen Croy won the East German Footballer of the Year award three times - in 1972,»76 and» 78.

On the domestic front, Croy won his second East German Cup Final with BSG in 1975, enjoying a run to the Semi-Final of the Cup Winners» Cup the following season.

Liverpool have been given a significant boost in their pursuit of RB Leipzig's superstar midfielder Naby Keita, with the East German side's resolve cracking according to Bundesliga journalist Chris Williams.

Being born in 1967 in Dresden, he was a staple of the East German youth teams and would make his debut for the national team at 19.

Another Red Bull star whose move to Leipzig from relegated Stuttgart this season may have been distasteful to those who decry the ownership of his new side but a move that looks set to pay off for the 20 - year - old who reportedly chose the East German club over Borussia Dortmund.