Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...articulation of the "Fuhrerprinzip," Hitler said, "I am the German people." He argued that, "It is madness to think... that a majority can suddenly replace the accomplishments of a man of genius." Last week, Zhirinovsky paraphrased Hitler, declaring that "The leader and the party are one and the same... When a sick man is lying on the operating table, you need a single doctor, not a team of consultants...
...Anglo" is a ethnic-specific term referring only to people of English descent. It excludes people of Irish, Italian, German, Greek, and other European ancestries. Indiscriminately calling white Americans "Anglo" is equivalent to calling all Latino "Mexican" or all Asian-Americans "Chinese." No one would question that such labels would be inaccurate and inadequate, and perhaps even racist...
...Then there was the introduction of guests, including a German neo-fascist, a delegation sent by president Saddam Hussein of Iraq and a Russian general recently freed from prison for his role in the uprising against President Boris N. Yeltsin in October...
...film critic for DIE WELT, a Conservative German newspaper, objecting to scenes of carousing SS camp guards in Schindler's List
...book was by German sociologist Max Weber; West, the man whom DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. Calls "the Preeminent Afro-American scholar of our generation," was even then no intellectual slouch...