Word: anti-nazi
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...your Gunter Grass cover story [April 13], you refer to former West German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss as having once been a member of the Nazi party. Strauss was never a member of the Nazi party. On the contrary, Strauss's father, a butcher, was an outspoken anti-Nazi. As for Strauss himself, he was drafted into the army, and his repeated criticism of Hitler's war caused him no end of trouble. At war's end, having been cleared of any Nazi connections by the American occupation forces, he was made a civilian administrative official...
...quarter-century after the cold war began, Willy Brandt, the anti-Nazi who last October became West Germany's first postwar Socialist Chancellor, is seeking to lessen the obstacles that still divide Europe. As soon as he came to power, Brandt touched off a whirl of diplomatic activity. One of his first acts was to end West Germany's 18-month reluctance to sign the nuclear-nonproliferation treaty. Only last week, in ceremonies in Washington, Moscow and London, the pact prohibiting the spread of nuclear weaponry was finally proclaimed to be in effect. Thanks to De Gaulle...
Brandt's anti-Nazi past and his Social Democratic politics acquit him of responsibility for the Germany of that other era. But his goal, too, is an independent Germany-or as he said in October, "a liberated, not a conquered Germany." But he acknowledges that the talk so far has concerned "atmospherics" or small points. Key points, like the recognition of East Germany or the normalization of divided Berlin, may well be years away...
Died. Erika Mann, 63, German-born daughter of Novelist Thomas Mann, her self a highly regarded author noted for her powerfully anti-Nazi writings in the 1930s; of a brain tumor; in Zurich, Switzerland. Like her Nobel prizewinning father, Miss Mann was quick to speak out against Hitlerism, in 1933 was forced to flee Germany after writing and producing a satirical anti-Nazi revue, The Pepper mill. Beginning in 1936, she frequently traveled in the U.S., where she scathingly attacked the Nazis in School for Barbarians, Escape to Life and The Lights Go Down...
Other readings were from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi Protestant martyr and theologian, and John F. Kennedy...