Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumph and a uniform designed for him by Hitler, Abetz returned to Paris in 1941 as German high commissioner of occupied France and ambassador to Vichy...
Criminality & Corruption. Jean Luchaire shared Abetz' feelings, helped him mightily. As "men of good will" under Briand and Stresemann, the two had failed to bind France and Germany together in peace and prosperity. In the Nazi era, they forged a lethal link between German criminality and French corruption...
Jean Luchaire became the "fiihrer" of the French collaborationist press, sent his son into the German army, his brother into the SS. For Corinne's affections, there existed no national (and scarcely any numerical) boundary. She gave birth to the daughter of a Luftwaffe captain. Abetz turned to other mistresses. With the last of them, a tall, dressy French art student, he was arrested in October 1945 in occupied Germany...
Chamber 13. Early in 1946, a firing squad shot grim, contemptuous Jean Luchaire for treason. Several months later, Corinne, racked by dissipation and tuberculosis, was condemned to ten years' "national indignity." Last week in Paris, Otto Abetz was on trial for crimes he committed during the German occupation: com plicity in maltreatment of Jews and French officers, looting French art treasures...
...fervent, forceful man who started this campaign of passive resistance is Rainer Hildebrandt, a 34-year-old German free-lance writer. Sitting in his faded Berlin apartment, Hildebrandt last week explained his purpose: "The Russians will see an F and know that people still have courage to speak up for human decency. German Spitzel [informers] will find the mark on their homes and will wonder whether the Red arm of the MVD is really long enough to protect them. Ordinary citizens, seeing an F, will know they are not alone, that there is more to be done against inhumanity than...