Word: aryanized
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...conquer the attention with a long, clinically detailed and (for all legal and dramatic purposes) pointless discussion of sexual sterilization in the Third Reich. Next comes the prurient account of an episode in which an elderly Jew, accused of committing Rassenschande (race shame) with a 16-year-old "Aryan'' girl, is legally murdered by a German judge. Finally, to complete his crescendo of sensationalism, Kramer cuts to some film clips of Buchenwald and starts bulldozing piles of corpses toward the horrified customer...
...Friedenstag, also suffered from a weak book-as did all of Strauss's operas after the death of Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Strauss had wanted Novelist Stefan Zweig as his librettist, but he was advised-i.e., ordered-by the Nazis to find a text writer of pure Aryan stock. His choice was Library Director Joseph Gregor, whose first draft was so hopeless ("Your dialogue between the two commanders is all wrong," wrote Strauss furiously; "it reads like two school teachers") that Zweig secretly rewrote the whole thing. Acclaiming the day in 1648 that the Westphalian Peace Treaty ended...
Specialist Eichmann traveled to Minsk with Reichsfuhrer Himmler to study the situation. The SS demonstrated its skills for its visitors by slaughtering 400 Jews. Eichmann seemed unbothered, but Himmler nearly fainted. He even tried to save one young Jew because he was blond and seemed Aryan, but Himmler's shouts were drowned in the rattle of ma chine guns. Later, Himmler was to show more aplomb at massacres, but now he ordered a search for a more "humane method...
...persecuted the Jews for almost two thousand years. "They take the cross," says Ernie in a moment of bitterness, "and they turn it around." In such moments of anger, and in others of heavy concern (It is admirable that during a period when they were teaching murder to their Aryan scholars, the instructors taught the Jewish children suicide") M. Schwartz. Bart momentarily abandons the ideal of patient suffering that illuminates his strongest characters...
...nation changed its name officially in 1935 from Persia to Iran, a variation of the word Aryan, one of its principal peoples. This was done in part to point up the ethnic contrast with its Semitic neighbors. Though Moslem, Iran is not Arab, a fact that has saved it from the Nasser-sponsored troubles that have rocked the rest of the Middle East. -Far more beautiful: the ancient tiled mosque city of Isfahan to the south, which in the 16th century reign of Shah Abbas was a greater city than Elizabethan London...