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...revolution. This feeling led him, during the twenties, to participate actively in political affairs. Meanwhile, he held several chairs of theology and philosophy, and developed his interests in psychology, the visual arts, and existentialism. In January, 1933, at the University of Frankfurt, he one day gave a lecture entitled "Heil Hitler," in which he analyzed the psychological appeal of the rising Nazi party. The next day Hitler came to power, and Tillich, fired immediately, took refuge on an island off the coast of Denmark...
Beyond Help. Soon World War II began, and the Germans marched into Holland. In the spring of 1942, Sister Benedicta and her sister Rosa were called before the SS police for questioning. Instead of the official "Heil Hitler!" Sister Benedicta greeted the Gestapo with "Praised be Jesus Christ...
...group of belted Aryans in one corner of the dingy auditorium raised their voices manfully in an English version of the Horst Wessel song, but their efforts were drowned in an even more enthusiastic cheer from another quarter: "Two-four-six-eight! Who do we appreciate? Mosley! Mosley! Mosley! Heil! Heil! Heil!" Thus, in an atmosphere boisterous with shouts, clicking heels and Nazi stiff-armed salutes, Britain's Sir Oswald Mosley returned last week to London from three years of self-imposed exile in Ireland for another try at peddling Naziism to his countrymen...
...once the ex-corporal got to twirling the hourglass of history, the sands of power ran out fast for the corps. The day was to come when German generals would be framed, tortured and hung from meat-hooks, and their fellow officers could not lift a hand except to heil Hitler...
...Save the King was already an old one. Some scholars say that Dr John Bull wrote it in 1619; others insist that t was written by the Scottish composer James Oswald in 1742. As far as Smith was concerned however, the tune was a German one-Prussia's Heil Dir im Siegerkranz...