Word: germanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Invited to a "light luncheon" with the Fuhrer, Helms was directed to a nearby castle, and made his way to the battlements. "Suddenly I heard from behind me a throaty voice say in German, 'That's a lovely view.' " Helms turned and was face to face with Hitler, who had stepped onto the balcony...
After the war, Hitler joined a new and violently anti-Semitic group, the $ forerunner of the National Socialist German Workers' Party -- Nazi for short. There, for the first time since adolescence, he found a home and friends. Within a year, he became the chief Nazi propagandist. Judaism, he told his audiences, had produced the profiteers and Bolsheviks responsible for the defeat of the fatherland and the strangulation of the economy. Jews were bacilli infecting the arts, the press, the government. Pogroms would be insufficient. "The final aim must unquestionably be the irrevocable Entfernung ((removal)) of the Jews...
During his months behind bars, Hitler dictated Mein Kampf, the Nazi bible. The terrible arithmetic of the war and the Holocaust was prefigured on every page. Propaganda: "The German . . . people must be misled, if the support of the masses is required." Morality: "Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong." Tactics: "The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force." Genetics: "All who are not of good race in this world are chaff...
...Jerusalem reporter Marlin Levin contacted dozens of sources before he was finally steered to Rafael Loc, 79, a Tel Aviv lawyer who emigrated to Israel from Poland in 1956. Loc had not only been a lieutenant on the front lines but had also survived five years in a German POW camp. "As his wife served homemade Polish cake, Loc spent two hours telling me about his adventures," says Levin. "The fact that he lived through the war when nearly every Polish Jew had been killed is remarkable...
Never mind country dachas or four-door Ladas. Soviet authorities figure the best incentive for greater agricultural yields is U.S. dollars or British pounds or German marks. Under an experimental program announced last week, the government will pay foreign cash to growers on state-run farms for excess harvests of wheat and other crops. The hard cash will enable farmers to purchase goods that no amount of rubles can buy, such as sophisticated farm equipment -- or videotape recorders...