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Word: hakenkreuz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bound sets, and youths, shabby as prison paperbacks, browsed through more than $2 million worth of books, manuscripts and incunabula. Among the items for sale was a two-volume set of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, inscribed by the author. The price for this piece of the true Hakenkreuz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New Literary Appreciation | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...present revival of interest in Hitler signifies anything beyond kinky fashion and souvenir hunting - the sort of impulse that, for years, has retained the jackboot and Hakenkreuz as essential furniture in the theater of sado masochistic imagination - it means that a degree of impatience with the demonic image has set in. What concerns the modern audience, and made Speer's memoir the bestseller it deservedly was, is not Hitler's myth but his documentary truth. What, beginning with his humanness, did he have in common with the people around us and with ourselves? What on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Hitler Revival: Myth v.Truth | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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