Word: anti-nazi
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...Real name: Haus der Kunst. Anti-Nazi artists coined the derisive nickname when Hitler filled the hall with his own approved brand of naturalistic...
...classmates and everyone else in Germany know a word nastier than a possible question by a New York reporter. The word is Sippenhaft, and it means, roughly, "family liability." It was widely used in Hitler's day when men, women & children were punished because they had anti-Nazi relatives...
...would be in jail eleven years (he reckoned that by that time the Third Reich would have fought and lost a war). His calculation was close. He spent ten years in concentration camps, most of them at Dachau of gas-chamber notoriety. There he ran a web of anti-Nazi conspiracy. He served one nine-month stretch in solitary, and ended another with a 28-day hunger strike that brought ruin to his digestive system...
...human wreck that hobbled into the British occupation political office in Hannover and asked how to go about starting a political party made little impression-"An interesting but completely nondescript fellow," says a Briton who was there. Like all who spoke for a bona fide anti-Nazi group, Schumacher was told he could go ahead. He rallied Socialists around him, whipped up interest across Germany, paved the way for a national convention, the first for the Socialists since the Weimar days. There was no question who was boss, but there was a basic decision to be made...
German rearmament seemed to horrify him at first, until he saw that it might be used as a bargaining weapon against the West. The European Army repels him because it confines Germany to military forces inside an international body. Proved anti-Nazi though he is, he talks like any Nazi general in his scorn of the French and Italians as soldiers. "The concept of a European army," says Schumacher, "is a fallacy, because six invalids cannot combine to make one athlete...