Word: anti-nazi
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There was a time in the 1950s when the problem of divided Germany was on everyone's lips. Today it is seldom discussed. France and Britain seem uninterested, and in the U.S. there is equal indifference. One reason perhaps is the recent vogue for anti-Nazi popular culture. The thud of jackboots across the bestseller lists (Armageddon, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich), the screen (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Longest Day) and the stage (The Deputy, Incident at Vichy) tends to make many Americans think of Germany in terms of its bloody past...
...other characters to enlist his desperately needed "hard resourcefulness" on the side of the anti-Nazi underground. The center of the action in both movies is a saloon that employs a wise and loyal piano player and a patriotic, emotional bartender. Both films include a hated Nazi (or Vichy) officer, an admired underground leader and his beautiful wife who need Bogart's help, a vicious cat-and-mouse police interrogation scene, and a phone call at gunpoint to assure a safe get-away for the anti-Nazi forces...
...another mystery of life. But it is the 20th century, the age of technological miracle, that has seen the triumph of the Enlightenment and the apparent banishment of God from the universe-even, thanks to Freud, from the human soul. Writing from his German prison cell in 1944. the anti-Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer defined it as "the world come of age." in which "man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis...
...Psychological Warfare at SHAEF, later helped to launch Radio Free Europe, and served as special assistant to President Eisenhower. In public life, as in private, he was prized for his humor, and he liked to tell a story on himself and General Walter Bedell Smith, who derided the anti-Nazi propaganda that was being dropped from planes on Germany. One day Smith called in Jackson and said, "I take it all back. One of those planes dropped a bale of printed matter over the Rhine and sank an enemy ship. I now recognize the effectiveness of your propaganda." During...
...time, the mass murder of feeble-minded and spastic children. After calling upon his congregation to pray for the Jews, Father Bernhard Lichtenberg, dean of Berlin's St. Hedwig Cathedral, was sent to his death at Dachau. The gifted Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer joined the conservative anti-Nazi movement as early as 1935, was executed moments before liberation...