Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Dayan, the one-eyed hero of the war, wants to give back any part of the lands before the Arabs agree to make peace-if they ever do. What he was telling his countrymen was that the occupation, although necessary, has hardened the fears of Arab leaders that Israel is bent on conquest and has made them, if anything, more determined than ever to destroy the Jewish state. The occupation, Dayan warned, is therefore likely to last a very long time...
...FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a lucid and persuasive essay, the 85-year-old German philosopher urges his countrymen to build a nation based on individual responsibility rather than on an atavistic dream of a perfect system...
Philosopher Karl Jaspers, 85, is a ghost at the German banquet who knows just how to haunt complacent fellow countrymen. Ever since the end of World War II, he has been relentlessly reminding his people that guilt belongs not only to Hitler but to the Germans who supported and obeyed him. Six years ago, he brought down Wagnerian thunder on his head by advising Germans to give up their favorite dream, reunification. Now in this slim, blunt: volume-a bestseller in Germany-he has put all the unpleasant reminders together. The result is a remarkable attempt at national selfcriticism. Only...
...functioning Nazi death camps and crematoriums of the '40s. But they were no less ruthless in quality for being more primitive and inefficient. Moreover, they existed on such a scale that ordinary Russians knew about them and stolidly accepted (or had to accept) the destruction of their fellow countrymen...
...part-Jewish. When Hoffmann was II, the Nazis occupied Paris, where they were living, and he and his mother fled to Nice, first unoccupied and later controlled by the easy-going Italians. In 1943, Italy capitulated and the Germans took over. The Hoffmanns dwelt in terror; many of their countrymen--expatriate Austrians--were picked up by the Gestapo...