Word: aryanized
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...Cambridge archeologist, Horatio Smith (Leslie Howard) is welcomed to the Germany of 1939; he has a Nazi commission to dig for traces of an Aryan civilization. In the process of proving that the progress of civilization depends on a few gifted people (mostly scientists, naturally), he excavates 20-odd live German scientists out from under the Gestapo noses...
...Aryan, Beckmann was unmolested by the Nazis' first cultural purges. But when, in 1935, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. presented a Beckmann, depicting a family of grotesque, square-headed Germans (see cut), to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the Nazi pundits suddenly got hopping mad. Wailed they: "Does [Mrs. Rockefeller] take us for such stupids [as the painting portrays] or does she take New Yorkers for such stupids that she hangs this up as a little bit of Germany?" In 1937 Beckmann moved with his round-faced, good-looking and good-cooking wife, "Quappi," to Holland. Says...
...credit wangled from frozen Vichy funds to feed the one-third of the islands' population on chÓmage (relief). But faithful to Vichy and Marshal Pétain, De Bournat had defied the pro-De Gaulle Societe des Anciens Combattants, amused or confused the islands' totally Aryan population by faithfully publishing Vichy's anti-Jewish decrees, tried to organize a Vichy "Patriotic Youth" movement while 150 of St. Pierre's sons were slipping away to join De Gaullists in Canada. Crowds on the pier cried "Vive De Gaulle" as De Bournat passed. "Vive...
...louse possesses qualities of dogged persistence and patient diligence which arouse that admiration, thinly masked by a pretense of loathing, which men similarly feel for competing races whom they fear, and, therefore, persecute. (We refer to the "Blond Aryan" complex. . . .) -Hans Zinsser: Rats, Lice and History...
Died. Hanns Kerrl, 54, Nazi Minister of Church Affairs; in Berlin. As Prussian Minister of Justice in 1933-34 he introduced the crime of "race treason"-mixing Jewish and "Aryan" blood. He was made Minister of Church Affairs in 1935, given the job of bringing the churches under full State control. He failed, and most of his power was taken from...