Word: anti-german
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...beginning of France's liberation. Many French families were forced to house and feed the German occupiers. Resistance was dangerous and reprisals murderous, yet a minority accepted the risks out of a youthful idealism that they look back on with something close to awe. On Dday, the Germans executed 92 Frenchmen who had been held in the Caen prison on charges of helping the Allies through sabotage or intelligence activities. Among the French survivors of that time, though, there is no undercurrent of anti-German feeling today. Liberation?and time?healed their wounds...
...uncanny ability to caricature the weaknesses of his adversaries. Some Israelis feared for the future of their young democracy when toughs broke up Labor Party rallies, threw eggs and tomatoes at Peres' car and shouted down speeches by Labor candidates. Begin undoubtedly picked up votes from his virulent anti-German campaign, his stern stand on the Syrian missile crisis, his meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last month and, above all, the surprise Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor...
...Schmidt refused comment, suggesting only that Begin read the complete transcript of his remarks. An official Bonn spokesman, meanwhile, dismissed Begin's accusations as "misleading and insulting," and inexcusable even during an election campaign. Though Begin supporters denied the charges of electioneering, there was little doubt that his anti-German tirade was popular at home. Begin seemed downright pleased by the diplomatic havoc he had wrought. Said he: "I won't lose even a moment's sleep...
Back in New York in 1916, Hartley was stunned when his German military paintings were received with hostility by a public that was increasingly anti-German. His confidence seemed shattered. He sat out the war in Provincetown and Bermuda. In 1921 he returned to Europe, wandering from Paris to Berlin to Florence to Rome...
...strongly resent the anti-German nature of S. Allen Counter's letter in response to Harkensson's movie. Mr. Counter seemed to be obsessed with the image of the inherently evil German. Why does he repetitively mention that Fran Hosken is Harkensson's German companion? I have never encountered a German woman with this name, but that is irrelevant to the subject matter discussed here. Whether Harkensson's assistant is German, Jewish, black or Russian is not important...