Word: anti-nazi
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...unhappy. The time was 1939; he knew that war was approaching and that, since he could not in conscience bear arms, he would surely be arrested if he went home to Germany. Still, he felt he must return. Back in Germany, Bonhoeler took an active part in the anti-Nazi underground. The Gestapo caught up with him on April 5, 1943. He spent two years in prisons and concentration camps before he was hanged, at 39, at Flossenburg in Bavaria, for plotting to kill Hitler...
...this time it will be different," Hanfstaengl declares. "I expect to have a swell time, and get a warm welcome. Why not? I'm as anti-Nazi now as they come...
...from anyone. During the Nazi occupation, their numbers were reduced from 757,000 to 430,000; after World War II about 60,000 were allowed to emigrate to Israel. Today's flashes of anti-Semitism stem partly from the prevailing economic discontent, and from resentment of those Jews who became Communists after the Russians took over-the Russians reasoned that Jews were safely anti-Nazi. Now exit was made as tough as possible for everyone who applied...
Died. Lion Feuchtwanger, 74, Munich-born novelist (Proud Destiny, Josephus, The Pretender, Jephta and His Daughter, This Is the Hour), anti-Nazi who escaped from a concentration camp dressed as a woman and made his way to the U.S. during World War II; in Los Angeles...
World War II. When the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, friends got Willy, by now a Norwegian citizen, into a Norwegian soldier's uniform, and although he spent five weeks in a P.W. camp, the Nazis never spotted the disguise. Released, he slipped across to Sweden, there wrote anti-Nazi propaganda until...