Word: heil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sieg Heil!" For the next night, so that the royal party could see Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in near-perfect security, the Foreign Office had bought up all 1,100 tickets to the Aldwych theater, distributed them to a select audience that included lead ers of London's Greek community. Shortly before curtain time, a false report that a bomb had been planted in the theater led to the additional spectacle of police in evening clothes combing the royal box with a mine detector...
Held back by six rows of police, 1,500 people outside greeted the royal arrivals with an ugly din of boos, hisses and mocking shouts of "Sieg heil!" and "fascist swine." Thousands of others cheered. After the play, Queen Elizabeth left the theater alone, and was greeted by another chorus of boos. She looked startled and dismayed. It was probably the first time that British royalty had been so publicly humiliated at home since Edward VII was hissed at Epsom in the last century after rumor involved him as a corespondent in a divorce case...
...gone to Britain to be guest star at a convention of British Nazis. But when his presence was discovered, Scotland Yard picked him up and, with very little time wasted on legal argument, put him on a U.S.-bound plane. As he boarded his jet, Rockwell turned, made a Heil Hitler salute and shouted, "I'll be seeing...
...Bonn, Barth was technically a civil servant. But he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Führer or open his classes with the Nazi salute. It would be bad taste, he told them, "to begin a commentary on the Sermon on the Mount with Heil Hitler." At the end of 1934, Barth was brought before a Nazi court, found guilty of "seducing the minds" of German students. For his defense. Earth pulled a copy of Plato's Apology from his pocket, read Socrates' argument to the court of Athens that he should be given...
...only listened, sometimes locking and interlocking his long fingers, or tilting his head in an odd, three-quarter inclination of strict attention. Occasionally, a muscle twitched in his thin neck. Once, Hausner said sarcastically that "if the swastika flag were again to be raised with shouts of 'Sieg heil I', if there were again to resound the hysterical screams of the Führer, if again the high-tension barbed wires of the extermination centers were set up-Adolf Eichmann would rise, salute and go back to his work of oppression and butchery." Eichmann drew together his thin...