Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through three successive days last week, hoarse-voiced Prosecuting Attorney Gideon Hausner stretched out his final summation against Adolf Eichmann, whom he described as "more evil than Hitler." It was all a little anticlimactic. After listening to one more repetition of Eichmann's crimes, an Israeli spectator complained impatiently, "Why do we need all this? Every baby in Israel knows Eichmann is guilty...
...RISE AND FALL OF ADOLF HITLER (by William L. Shirer; Random House; $1.95) is not, as might be supposed, merely an instant, small-package version of Shirer's massive bestseller, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. This book is more sharply and dramatically focused on the man rather than the world he terrorized. Shirer writes with dignity, authority and a total lack of adult condescension. Without blinking the problem of evil, he captures the demonic fascination of Hitler, whose life was essentially the success story of a monster. Like most of the Landmark series, this book...
What prompted Adolf Eichmann's wartime offer of 1,000,000 Jews in exchange for 10,000 trucks? Was it pity for Jews? "I want a clear answer," said Judge Moshe Landau...
...them to his wife's nephew for safekeeping. Then he and his family fled in terror from Washington and the Communist Party. In 1939, moved by the Russo-German pact that opened the floodgates of World War II, Chambers disclosed the existence of his old spy ring to Adolf A. Berle Jr., then in charge of State Department security. In Witness, Chambers reports that Berle hustled the information to Franklin Roosevelt, who told him to "go jump in a lake...
...dreary trial of Adolf Eichmann droned on (see THE WORLD), his son, Nicolas Eichmann, 25, remained dutiful and defiant in an interview in Parade. Believing his lieutenant colonel father a scapegoat, the 25-year-old electrician nonetheless said: "I expect the judges to sentence him to death." Claiming that until last year he believed the ex-Gestapo officer to be his uncle, Nicolas insisted that "there were not so many Jews killed as has been charged. Besides, I have heard that these executions were ordered by top Jews themselves, because they believe Jews should be martyrs." As for himself-after...