Word: fuhrer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world, was as much an American objective as his eviction from Kuwait. He denounced Saddam as "worse than Hitler." When hurled from the bully pulpit, such epithets have, as they say in Washington, policy implications. They create expectations and raise questions: Would Hitler have been allowed to remain the Fuhrer of Germany after World...
Fighting words in any language. Still, Wagner should not be blamed for Hitler's final solution, even though it is true that the Fuhrer -- who saw himself as a Siegfried-like embodiment of the Wagnerian Teutonic ideal -- was lionized annually at the Bayreuth festival and Wagner's music sometimes sounded in the death camps. That says more about Hitler than Wagner -- who had by then been dead for a half-century and was not responsible for the misuse of his works by the Nazis...
...however, was far from finished. Orchestrating an intricate withdrawal, he then prepared for a counterattack. Hitler sent him an entire air corps, detached from the Russian front. The two divisions of the Afrika Korps were resupplied and refreshed, and in June 1942 Rommel captured Tobruk -- earning from the Fuhrer the rank of field marshal. Egypt, Suez and the oil of the Middle East now seemed within his grasp. Hitler, warned by more cautious advisers to be wary about proceeding toward Cairo, nonetheless ordered that operations "be continued until the British forces are completely annihilated . . . The goddess of fortune passes only...
...Baghdad -- and Karbala and Kirkuk -- is still President of Iraq. The answer is that since withdrawing from Kuwait, Saddam has been playing by accepted rules; his abominations are once again in the category of internal affairs. Which suggests a disturbing line of speculation about Hitler himself: What if the Fuhrer had resisted the temptations of conquest and been content with the real estate of the Weimar Republic to build the Third Reich, complete with gas chambers and ovens? Would the world have done anything about...
...second show was called the "Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung" (Great German Art Exhibition), and much of it was handpicked by the Fuhrer himself. In his opening speech, he promised that "cliques of chatterers, dilettantes, and art forgers will be picked up and liquidated...