Word: german
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spiegel's findings, praised by West German Historian Theodor Eschenburg as "serious and scientific," point out that the case against Hitler, Göring & Co. rests on hearsay as suspect as the Nazi accusation against the Communists. Spiegel had used, among other evidence, the institute's files in Munich. Historian Anton Hoch, the institute's archivist, accepting the scientific basis of Spiegel's findings, commented: "We must report atrocities such as Auschwitz and Belsen concentration camps, but for the sake of truth we must also show that Nazis were not to blame for the Reichstag fire...
What the 18th century U.S. schoolboy beheld was a tiaraed bogeyman, whose heart appeared to mask Malice, Murder and Treachery. The caricature went undisputed. In the Protestant schools of the time, Roman Catholics were barred from teaching jobs. As Irish and German immigrants swelled the U.S. Catholic population, their bishops (in 1884) announced an urgent edict. Every parish priest must organize a parochial school; Catholic parents must send their children to such schools whenever possible...
...thousand old wives' tales hold that there is a close connection between a woman's illnesses during pregnancy and the health of her baby, but medical researchers were long unable to prove anything except the damaging effects of German measles in the first three months of gestation (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956). Then came the 1957 midsummer warning that an epidemic of Asian influenza was imminent, and physicians braced themselves for a test. Last week, in the London medical journal Lancet, two Irish investigators reported that Asian flu is a potent cause of fetal abnormalities, many of them fatal...
...this evidence, Asian flu joins German measles as a crippler and killer of children in the womb...
...themselves; then low-military-IQ types such as Eisenhower, Marshall, Bradley and Churchill stepping in to upset his foolproof traps for the enemy. Triumph begins in September 1943, ends with a diary entry in June of 1946. The book's thesis is that Alanbrooke tried to draw the Germans out to the very periphery of Fortress Europa so as to take the heat off both the Russians and the coming Allied attack on Normandy. This idea was at the heart of the Italian campaign. But according to Alanbrooke, Ike and Mark Clark never did seem to know what that...