Allen Dulles: “The Present Situation in Germany”

Glossary

• collectivist referring to any political system (but especially totalitarian ones such as Nazism and Communism) that emphasizes the collective or group over the individual
• double track a dual system of railroad tracks, such that trains can travel in opposite directions, as contrasted with a single track, on which trains traveling in opposite directions must share the track and be scheduled accordingly
• Eva Braun the mistress of Adolf Hitler
• food cards ration cards
• habeas corpus Latin for “we demand the body”; the legal right of an accused person not to be held or detained without the opportunity of being formally charged for specific crimes
• land tenure individual land ownership
• liquid assets items of value that can be easily exchanged—cash, precious metals, or precious gems
• Party members former members of the Nazi party
• prime the pump government stimulation of an economy through spending, lowered taxes or interest rates, or other means
• quarter give temporary living accommodations to
• tear down the zone for the purpose of building up Russia a reference to the fact that during and after World War II, the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin arranged to have whole factories and even towns moved from the Soviets’ western frontiers to the interior of the nation
• Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam three major conferences of the Allied leadership in World War II