Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight months, as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nürnberg trials, Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, had listened to Nazi bigwigs trace the rise & fall of Hitlerism. The big lesson of Nürnberg, he told a New York lawyers' meeting last week, was that Hitler doomed himself when he exiled scientists, suppressed information and halted intellectual progress. Why not, asked Jackson, in effect, let the Russians, who are making the same mistake, wither in their own stupidity? Said...
...Nobel Prizewinner (1931), Warburg is a biochemist about whom anecdotes crystallize. In the '305 the Nazis had winked at the fact that he was "non-Aryan," allowed him to keep on working in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Warburg's field was cancer research, and Hitler had a personal dread of the disease. Warburg could also manage the occupation authorities. When Berlin was first occupied, he lost his riding horses twice, once to the Russians and once to the Americans; he got them back each time...
...setting is a Middle European monarchy during World War II. Most of the play takes place in 1943 when the monarch, feeling that Hitler's goose is cooked, is ready to talk turkey with the Social Democrats and Communists. Hoederer, the Communist leader (Charles Boyer), believes that for tactical reasons the party should join in a coalition. To the party purists this is treason, and they install an idealistic young convert (John Dall) as Hoederer's secretary, with orders to kill him. While the squeamish secretary is funking the assignment, his wife (Joan Tetzel) falls in love with...
...indulges in lengthy political discourses in the words of his characters and in the third person. His German officers begin, for the first time, to doubt the infallibility of what they have built and operated, and to find in the ruin of the sixth Army and its betrayal by Hitler the first indications that they have devoted their lives to a false cause. It dawns on some of them that in a few years their own cities will look like this heap of rubble along the Volga, and that they themselves have helped to bring that about...
...that Wallis Simpson of Baltimore is "the woman I love"; here, as the dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flame above Lakehurst, N.J., the announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich; the hysterical scream of Hitler, punctuated by the thunder of his Storm Troopers' "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"; the uninflected, almost casual voice of Joseph Stalin promising death to the invading Nazis, and the stentorian challenge of Churchill, rallying his little island against a continent...