Word: anti-nazi
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World War II, Figaro's great anti-Nazi editor, Pierre Brisson, suspended publication in protest against Vichy censorship. Today, Figaro is owned half by Jean Prouvost, publisher of Paris-Match, and half by Industrialist Ferdinand Beghin, but under an agreement worked out after years of controversy, the editorial staff has complete freedom...
...Other Catholic experts charge that Friedlander has failed to consider the self-serving motives of the German diplomats whose reports are so crucial to his thesis. Von Bergen, for example, was an ambitious professional diplomat who hoped for promotion in Germany's foreign service. Von Weizsacker was an anti-Nazi Protestant who apparently wished to prevent Hitler from taking any action that would harm Pius personally...
...stems from the remarkable drama of his life. The son of a prosperous neurologist, he studied theology at the University of Berlin in the 1920s and quickly gained a reputation as one of Germany's most promising young Protestant thinkers. After Hitler came to power, Bonhoeffer joined the anti-Nazi "Confessing Church," for which he later ran a secret, illegal seminary at Finkenwalde. In 1939, Bonhoeffer, who had once been a pacifist, refused the safety of exile in the U.S. Even though employed as a German intelligence agent, he secretly joined the underground...
...hearty welcome has assured me that my visit here will be unforgettable." There were moments during the eight-day trip that he might just as soon forget, such as an ugly fracas at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where police tangled with anti-German demonstrators. Otherwise, the Israelis were warm to der Alte, a staunch anti-Nazi in wartime and a champion of Israel since then. "If good will is not recognized," he gravely told guests at Eshkol's home, "then no good can be created...
...Time of No Religion. Some Christians, of course, have long held that Nietzsche was not just a voice crying in the wilderness. Even before Nietzsche, SÖren Kierkegaard warned that "the day when Christianity and the world become friends, Christianity is done away with." During World War II, the anti-Nazi Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote prophetically to a friend from his Berlin prison cell: "We are proceeding toward a time of no religion...