Word: adolf
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...most extreme example in recent history was Adolf Hitler's employment of freedom of speech to rise to power. There is something inherently wrong with a system that assists those who would seek to overthrow...
...only allowed Arafat to address us, but we also hugged him, kissed him, fed him and congratulated him, in President Rudenstine's words, on his 20 years of "loyalty to the Palestinian cause." Were he alive today, Adolf Hitler, though "interesting" in the extreme, would still not be among those we would invite to our house, nor would we congratulate the man for his "loyalty" to the German people...
WHAT DID HE KNOW, AND WHEN did he know it? Questions about Albert Speer's awareness of the Holocaust haunted Adolf Hitler's wartime Armaments Minister (and favorite architect) until his death at 76 in 1981. At the 1945-46 war-crimes trial of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in Berlin's Spandau prison for his complicity in Hitler's atrocities. Unlike his codefendants, Speer readily accepted responsibility for crimes committed by a government in which he played a leading role. But he insisted it was not until the trial that he learned about...
...taped monologues he made for a would-be screenwriter, is a storm of racial fury. But Cochran set off his own kind of racial tempest when he used his closing arguments to call Fuhrman and another Los Angeles officer, Philip Vannatter, "twin devils" and to compare Fuhrman to Adolf Hitler. More than that, he urged the jurors to see a not-guilty verdict as an opportunity to send a message against racism and police misconduct. "Fuhrman is a nightmare, but he's America's nightmare, not just black people's nightmare," Cochran told Time last week. "And everybody needs...
...extremist. Each year we all say, "Lest we forget," but I fear we have already forgotten. You may call me paranoid to think that farmers from a small American town could lead to such inhumanity as the Oklahoma bombing, but who would have thought a lowly, unsuccessful painter like Adolf Hitler could do what...