Word: anti-nazi
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...Dramatic Announcement. "I am an American invention," says Erhard today, and in a sense he is. By 1948, partly because of his anti-Nazi record, he was chosen by the American Occupation authorities to be economic administrator of the combined U.S. and British zones. The professor sounded visionary, if not slightly mad, to visitors who heard him advocate the end of ra tioning and other controls at a time when Germany was in rubble and people lived on fewer than 2,000 calories...
...Catholic priests martyred by the Nazis to whom Hochhuth dedicated his play. Fontana, who comes from an aristocratic Roman family with impeccable Vatican connections, is assigned to the office of the papal nuncio in Berlin. There, in a scene derived from an actual incident of 1943, a secretly anti-Nazi storm trooper named Rudolf Gerstein breaks in to tell the nuncio that Jews are being systematically exterminated at death camps in Eastern Europe. The horrified nuncio refuses to take any action because the Vatican has a concordat with Germany-which Pius XII, then Vatican Secretary of State, negotiated...
...five years studying Hasidic texts, then wrote the first of his ten books that retell the legends and learning of the Hasidic rabbis. During the early '30s, he and the late Rabbi Leo Baeck were the unquestioned leaders of Germany's Jewish community; Buber organized schools, edited anti-Nazi journals, and in "The Question to the Single One" wrote a classic damning indictment of modern totalitarianism. In 1938, a rescue committee at Jerusalem's Hebrew University hired him, and he taught there until his retirement in 1951. He now lives quietly in a book-cluttered house...
...chief character of The Birthday King, by British Novelist Gabriel Fielding. Ruprecht Weidmann is the scion of a wealthy manufacturing family that has a slight admixture of Jewish blood and is trying desperately to get into Hitler's good graces. A cold opportunist, Ruprecht commits his anti-Nazi brother to a concentration camp, drowns a companion, betrays a business associate who is plotting against Hitler, sends off a dozen of his factory workers to serve as medical guinea pigs. Ruprecht is a kind of lago beyond the reach of life-and the credibility of the reader...
...humanitarian. He works for the Third Reich, but he hates it. For one thing, his Jewish mistress has been hauled off to prison. For another, he is sickened by the brutality at the concentration camp where he is stationed. Steinbaum is on the verge of joining an anti-Nazi conspiracy when he makes the mistake of going to a party held by a high Nazi official in an elegant château. The symbol of Nazi Germany, Author von Abele suggests, is not an armed camp or an insane asylum but this grand, lurid party in which decent men lose...