Well, "kraft durch freude" was the group who sent all those "ordinary
workers" (actually party insiders and others with good connections) out on
baltic cruises... Getting back on topic, though, they also built the world's
longest building in the form of a massive complex along the beach of one of
the baltic islands (rugen I think it was), which has proven to be something
of a headache to the preservationists whose job it is to maintain it as a
protected monument (i.e. historical building)...

geoff carver - SUNY buffalo
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David
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Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 14:09
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Subject: Re: a quick comment


I believe this use of "homeland" is new for us in the United States.  From
what I read in the papers around a year ago, I understand "national
security" was the first choice, but it was felt that this had been
"overused," and there were negative connotations in that phrase.  I remember
Reagan's "Peace through Strength" in the mid-1980s, and wondered what part
of Germany, also what era, that phrase had come from.