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Irina and Jan had promised to keep her on the payroll at the company; everyone else had been forced to take their annual vacation until it was clear whether Hanna would be able to appear before a camera again.
Irina und Jan würden in der Firma die Stellung halten, alle anderen mussten ihren Jahresurlaub nehmen, bis klar war, ob Hanna jemals wieder in der Lage sein würde, vor eine Fernsehkamera zu treten.
Admirable as his social achievements—the forty-hour work week and the two-week paid annual vacation—were, they appeared manifestly to contradict his urge to speed up rearmament in the face of the Nazi menace.
So bewundernswert seine sozialen Errungenschaften – die 40-Stunden-Woche und der bezahlte zweiwöchige Jahresurlaub – waren, sie standen anscheinend in offenem Widerspruch zu seinem Drang, angesichts der Bedrohung durch die Nationalsozialisten die Wiederbewaffnung zu beschleunigen.
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