Word: fascists
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...only Germans?were the same ones who condemned her afterward. Her fascination with Adolf Hitler wasn't different from anyone else's at that time. In the prewar era, a passion for Hitler, whether it was blind faith or political maneuvering, was a common phenomenon. Was Riefenstahl's art fascist at that time? One must ask whether there ever was a country that didn't praise itself or its people. Isn't the human striving for godlike perfection, as captured in Riefenstahl's film Olympia, a trait shared by all humans? She achieved the highest form of expression attainable...
...been safe from the tropes of antipathy that have come to be known as “anti-Americanism.” They are as much in evidence in Britain as in Germany, France and Italy—on the political right, as well as the left. Nazi and fascist characterizations of America barely differ in either tone or content from those of the extreme left. During the Cold War years, the presence of the Soviet threat—perceived a greater evil—muted disdain for America. But once this danger disappeared, old antipathies reemerged with new strength...
...first seven years of the U.S. occupation of Japan, the military administration kept the islands under lock and key. No critical news escaped the previously fascist state, which was seen before the war as entirely unreceptive to democracy. All of the journalism sent to the world, and especially to America, was delivered via the military news agency, Stars and Stripes. Millions of letters were censored, if not destroyed...
DIED. LADY DIANA MOSLEY, 93, most scandalous and, some thought, most beautiful of the six famous Mitford sisters; in Paris. She left her first husband, heir to the Guinness brewing fortune, to run away with Sir Oswald Mosley, the widely hated head of Britain's fascist party. After spending some of the war years in a London prison, she and her husband moved to Paris, where she continued to dazzle her frequent guests and write rigorous book reviews. Of Hitler, she said, in 2000, "I was fond of him. Very, very fond...
VIETNAM WAR Battlefield Protests Troops saw the quagmire before their leaders did. In 1965 a lieutenant was court-martialed for marching in a protest with a sign calling President Johnson a "fascist aggressor...