Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Inge must have had one of his extremely gloomy moments when he wrote (TIME, Nov. 6) about Luther in the Churchman. He calls Luther "the worst evil genius of that country [Germany]," worse than Hitler. And then the Dean goes on to say that Lutheranism is essentially German. Preposterous! Lutheranism is Christianity; it is essentially scriptural. The God that Luther worshiped is the just and merciful God of the Bible...
...when he was younger. When he says "Lutheranism is essentially German" he should be reminded that Germany is less than 50% Lutheran while all of the Scandinavian lands are more than 90% Lutheran. Those who would "put an end to Luther's influence in Germany" should reflect that Hitler and his advisers are not and never were Lutherans, and that Lutheran pastors have been the chief obstacle to Hitler's absolute sway in Germany, Norway and Denmark, and for that reason they have suffered imprisonment and martyrdom by the thousands...
Under the Geneva Convention of 1929, the 281,344 captured German soldiers in the U.S. may give the Nazi salute, paste up small pictures of Adolf Hitler, drape the coffin of a departed comrade with the swastika banner. This situation understandably exasperates many U.S. citizens. Last week a letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson suggested that the U.S. Army is well aware that it has the potential core of a future fascism on its hands, that it has already taken many preventive steps lately requested by outraged civilians...
...more than one occasion Winston Churchill has paid his derisive respects to the strategy of "Corporal Hitler" by listing it among the Allies' greatest assets. Addressing the House of Commons last week, the Prime Minister soberly refrained from any such sarcasm-for, whatever the reason for Hitler's eclipse, his meddling and whimsical hand was no longer in evidence on the western front...
Correspondents quoted a "high" U.S. officer who has closely studied the German operations since Dday: "If Hitler were running the Army now, he would probably be screaming to his generals to retake Aachen by 6 o'clock tonight, instead of allowing them to conduct the highly skilled defense they are making. . . . The use the Germans have made of the past two months to recover, and their remarkable resurgence of military power, show no amateur is now in charge, but shrewd professional soldiers...