Word: auschluss
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...future is tragically linked to whether these men can survive the next five years. Even students in American colleges will remember the lost generation in British and French leadership after the last war; the generation that might have filled the moral breach at the time of the Rhineland, or Auschluss, or Munich. Enlarge that picture to the entire cordon of east-European states and project it fifteen or twenty years into the future. If tuberculosis and the vitality consuming hunt for food are allowed to divert the best minds of east-Europe and China away from their training, these countries...
...like the hastily-written volumes of so many other emigres, a keyhole explanation of recent events. But "Embezzled Heaven" is a much less shallow work than "Seven Mysteries" or "Why France Fell." It is essentially an analysis, a dissection of Teta Linek, the gnarled servant woman of pre-auschluss Austrian aristocrats. When her employers with all their culture and education were stamped out under the swastika, this sextagenarian could face the future with calmness. For she had purchased a seat amongst the blessed by educating a nephew for the priesthood--and there was nothing to do but await the call...
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