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  • Testimony ranged from people like David Goerlitz, the former "Winston Man" who, in a press conference before the hearing, said smokers are treated like "lepers and second-class citizens," to Joe Applebaum, a Brooklynite who equated second-hand smoke with rat poison and said smokers have "no consideration for their fellow man."

    Heated Debate at Hearing on Smoking Ban in Parks The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • "How about Goerlitz in Saxony?" writes Florian Kinast, sports editor of the Abendzeitung newspaper in Munich.

    God's footballers: Which players turned to religion after hanging up their boots? 2010

  • Some people noticed that director Quentin Tarantino was mysteriously absent from the Goerlitz set.

    Eli Roth Guest Directs Inglourious Basterds | /Film 2008

  • Above, a technician assembles turbines at Siemens Energy factory in Goerlitz, eastern Germany.

    Germany Can Change to Confront Export Slump -- but Will It? 2009

  • Associated Press In May photo, technician Maik Seidel worked on the assembly line for turbines at Siemens Energy factory in Goerlitz, Germany.

    Euro-Zone Industrial Orders Rise 2009

  • Maneuvering with considerable adroitness around the central position afforded by Goerlitz, the French forces moved up and down the right bank of the Elbe to engage repeatedly the armies of Silesia and Bohemia, and in due course brought off another indecisive victory at Dresden August 27.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Maneuvering with considerable adroitness around the central position afforded by Goerlitz, the French forces moved up and down the right bank of the Elbe to engage repeatedly the armies of Silesia and Bohemia, and in due course brought off another indecisive victory at Dresden August 27.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • He didn't have much to go on-the stories of the people who had come back from Goerlitz, the bare German announcements of the deaths and the urns of ashes engraved with the places of cremation.

    THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

  • About the same time, Bowes caught up with Erwin Wieczorek, who had been with Lux's gang in Goerlitz, and Richard Haensel, Kriminalpolizei chief in Goerlitz.

    THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

  • It seemed a big town, and the guard, who was friendly enough, told him it was Goerlitz, about forty miles south of Sagan and not far from the Czech border.

    THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

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