Word: anti-nazi
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After fighting in the anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw, being captured by the Germans in the wake of the 1944 uprising, and being liberated by General Patton's U.S. Third Army, big, blond Witold von Henneberg and his brother Jacek made their way to the West, determined to become architects in the free world. Their father Wilhelm, vice president of the Polish Architectural Society, stayed behind, and in the period of increasing Russian influence on Polish artistic life was ordered to conform to backward Moscow-style architecture or not work...
Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass (rhymes with war-dash) is a tough and gallant churchman. He was a valiant center of Hungary's anti-Nazi resistance during the occupation; in 1945 he was made Bishop of Budapest. The Communists found him no easier to handle than the Nazis had; he stubbornly resisted the nationalization of church schools. In 1948 the Communists arrested him on trumped-up charges of currency-law violation and sentenced him to two years in prison. Yielding to Communist pressure, the Hungarian Lutheran Church court deposed him as bishop. After his release in 1950, he retired...
Christoph Probst, a student and anti-Nazi, wrote to his mother: "I thank you for having given me life," and to his sister: "I never knew that dying is so easy . . I die without any feeling of hatred...
...Social Democrats, influenced by feelings of comradeship for the Communists during the bitter struggle against Hitler, accepted the Communist slogan-"Democracy v. Fascism"-at its face value and joined a popular-front organization called the SED. Among them were hundreds of top Socialist leaders, including ex-Editor (of the anti-Nazi Brandenburger Zeitung) Friedrich Ebert, fat, pink-cheeked Max Feehner, onetime toolmaker, and gaunt, ambitious Otto Grotewohl. When skeptics called the SED a Communist maneuver, Grotewohl laughed and said that the Socialists, outnumbering the Communists three to one, would take over...
...truth, the young hero, Hugo, leaves his father's house and joins the Communists of his Nazi-occupied country. "Here I met men who didn't lie...I could breath." But even within the party there is a liar--Hoederer, their leader, intends to join conservative groups in an anti-Nazi coalition. To save Party purity and to take the step which would prove himself, Daniel accepts an assignment from Hoederer's opponents within the Party to assasinate the leader...