Word: godless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blitzkrieg is godless war; God does not necessarily aid the side with the biggest battalions. Materiel and strategy count for much. The Germans could honestly say last week that they had long had air superiority and now for the first time clearly had tank superiority...
Edicts still forbid the teaching of religion to children under 18, distribution of the Bible or church literature, any form of "religious propaganda." Yet even the League of the Militant Godless admits that millions of Russians (in 1936 it estimated half the total population) still cling to their Greek Orthodox faith...
That the Pope would take a strong stand against Nazi Germany, while refusing to take a stand against Godless Communist Russia, was perhaps too much to expect. But if the President, as spokesman for the world's democracies, and the Pope, as spokesman for the world's Catholics, could agree on one program of peace aims, then each would gain a valuable moral ally. Not only in the U.S. and Latin America, but in France, Spain, Portugal, and even in Italy and Germany, Catholics would be influenced. As for Russia, she could do little but subscribe...
...Nazi press repeatedly railed against the Soviet soldiers as bestial, godless men who fight "unfairly." Said a Berlin War Ministry philosopher: "Bolshevism, having killed their souls and their religion, the Russians therefore do not fear physical death and what comes after. This Eastern war is endless killing ... as some human beings continue to exist although medicinal laws say they are dead, not having the necessary calories and vitamins for life, so the Russian Armies, beaten according to all the arts of war, fight on just because the political commissars order them...
...guard day & night. Italian officers were forbidden to speak to U.S. attachés. U.S. films were banned from Italy. Professor Guido Manacorda of the University of Florence made a speech before the Italian Center for American Studies in which he called the U.S. "a civilization of robbers, the godless, the divorcees, the gangsters, the lynchers, the strikers and the unemployed...