Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aging (73) Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, financial wizard of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, kept his perfect batting average when he was acquitted last week at Lüneburg's denazification court for the fourth (and probably last) time...
...snapped, had little to feel satisfied about. "Calvinism is a fine, manly creed; it is simply baptized stoicism. But as it worships a God who is neither just nor merciful, we can hardly call it Christian." Take Martin Luther: "My detestation of that man grows. This spiritual father of Adolf Hitler says that the state can do no wrong. 'It is God that hangs and beheads men and breaks them on the wheel.' Has any doctrine caused more human misery than this...
Russian soldiers last week were on the march in Eastern Germany. Over the same military training fields that had once rumbled under the boots and tank treads of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, the Russian columns toiled and sweated in the summer sun. Officially, the Russians were just on maneuvers. But Western Europe was struck with an obvious and ominous comparison: the European country most vulnerable to the kind of Communist aggression that had struck partitioned Korea was partitioned Germany. Was the Russian rumble as ominous as it sounded? Last week, after a close investigation, TIME'S Berlin Bureau...
...Adolf Hitler's Germany, Sculptor Josef Thorak had a big job: official sculptor of the Third Reich. His huge statuary was to decorate the squares and public buildings of the city that Hitler was to make the "thousand-year capital" of the Reich. To house Thorak's enormous work in preparation, some of it six stories high and weighing 1,000 tons, the Führer built him a studio as high and wide as a Zeppelin hangar. When the job proved to be insecure, Sculptor Thorak retired to semiobscurity in Bavaria...
...Stalin, Mao Tse-tung) and evil-looking "dollar imperialists." One poster showed a trio of capitalist exploiters in Edwardian garb, complete with grey toppers. With the kids marched 10,000 grim-faced "Special Squads" of the People's Police, deeply tanned, obviously well trained-the 1950 version of Adolf Hitler's Storm Troopers. The marchers chanted versified slogans. Sample...