Word: bestialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professional Tool. In contrast to some Nazis who have been addicts of drink, drugs, homosexuality or women, Himmler seems almost normal. He has never paid much visible attention to the neurotic mysticism of Hitler or to the abstruse ideologies of Rosenberg. Unlike the bestial Julius Streicher, he does not appear to delight in brutality for its own sake. He simply uses terror with absolute cold-bloodedness and efficiency as his main professional tool...
...overemotional, occasionally theatrical (in phrases such as "Battles are merely the flashing, seductive garments that hide the passionate but terrible whore's body of war"). But it carries the conviction of a man whose spirit has been tried by seven years' intimacy with war's "dumb, bestial suffering, weariness, and utter and devastating exhaustion...
...France can stagger along for a while, as a beggar, but she cannot continue as a great nation that way. ... So long as I have a tongue to speak and a hand to write, I shall go on repeating what I have said for 50 years. We are not bestial enough to abandon the truth...
Ehrenburg's most impassioned reports are purportedly based on diaries and letters taken from German corpses and prisoners. Some of these writings are arrogant, some bestial, some pathetic-but to Correspondent Ehrenburg they are one & all evidence of an utterly "brutalized" culture led by "an epileptic and ignorant Führer...
...feel that they can get along considerably better with Germany than with Japan after the war, the Gallup Poll reported last week. The pollsters documented U.S. hate for Japan by jotting down the adjectives citizens applied to the Jap: "Barbaric, evil, brutal, dirty, treacherous, sneaky, fanatical, savage, inhuman, bestial, uncivilized, un-Christian and thoroughly untrustworthy...