Word: anti-nazi
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Future historians of 20th Century totalitarianism will puzzle over this paradox: the most effective anti-Nazi novel (On the Marble Cliffs) published in Germany during Hitler's reign was written by a prominent Nazi writer...
...when Hitler began to realize this satanic Utopia, Juenger, an aristocratic esthete, balked. It was one thing to preach total discipline, another thing to experience it. For the first six years of the Nazi reign he wrote mostly of private and nonpolitical matters. A few days after the Nazi invasion of Poland he published On the Marble Cliffs, a strange allegorical novel, clearly anti-Nazi in intention. Even those who hated Juenger and all he had stood for had to admit that its publication was an act of courage...
...other side of Ambassador Winant's task was to interpret to the British the complications of U.S. policy and procedure. This seems (although he does not say so) one of the most miserable jobs on earth. The British thought that each anti-Nazi speech by the President or a member of the Cabinet would be followed by a declaration of war. It also seems to have become increasingly difficult for Winant to speak of U.S. aid when he knew how small was the rate of U.S. production. Between the lines of Letter from Grosvenor Square...
...uses as a measuring-rod a man he knows only by a card in a file, Adam Lorenz, an anti-Nazi journalist who had stood up to Hitler before & after 1933. From Lorenz' father, wife and friends, Cooper learns that Lorenz too had to fight the unheroic in himself. He had become a hero, a concentration-camp veteran, because he had been afraid not to be one. Cooper's search for Lorenz, against orders from his superiors, becomes the major action of the book. "If I've come this far . . . it's because...
Braden's insistence that Argentina fulfill the last letter of her anti-Nazi commitments was paralyzing State's Latin American division. Messersmith had attacked his job of smoothing U.S.-Argentine relations with such gusto that he was beginning to look like an apologist for President Juan...