Word: anti-nazi
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Considering Boldrini's age, Italians are already speculating on his successor. The morning line favors Eugenio Cefis, 42, who moved up to Boldrini's vice presidency last week. Cefis (pronounced Cheh-feece) met Mattei in the anti-Nazi resistance after the collapse of Mussolini and stayed on to help Mattei negotiate many of E.N.I.'s oil prospecting deals...
...National Socialist political theories were given the same sanctity as theological dogma. "This was a nationalist heresy,"he says, "confusion between God and the spirit of the German nation." He launched a new magazine to attack the "heresy" and in 1934 wrote nearly all of the Barmen Declaration-an anti-Nazi protest that claimed the autonomy of the church from all temporal power. The declaration was signed by 200 leaders of Germany's Lutheran, Reformed and Evangelical Unionist churches...
...other Nazi victim was Carmelite Father Titus Brandsma, a Dutch-born journalist famed for his prewar anti-German writings who was captured by Nazi troops after The Netherlands surrendered in 1940. Brandsma refused to retract his anti-Nazi views, died "protecting Christianity against National Socialism" in a Dachau gas chamber...
...Mann often made such left-wing sounds. After he fled Germany in 1938, he was a supporter of all anti-Nazi groups, which often included Communists. His defense of the Communists for their anti-Nazi position was later used by them for their own purposes...
...right to ask," said Strauss in a speech in Bavaria, "what you [Brandt] did outside Germany during those twelve years. Just as we were asked, 'What did you do inside Germany?' We know what we did." Brandt has told his own side of the story before. Violently anti-Nazi and in danger of arrest, he fled to Norway in 1933. When the Nazis invaded Norway in 1940, Brandt put on a Norwegian uniform-at the insistence of friends who were trying to keep him from being grabbed by the Gestapo and shot. He returned to Germany...