Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood an elaborate, gold-fringed banner with the same colors, and beside it lay a wooden mallet covered with faded signatures. Meeting here amid Berlin's ruins was a chapter of Saxo-Borussia, one of the most important of the long-forbidden student corps which, long before Adolf Hitler, fostered Bismarck's "blood & iron" ideals of an imperialistic Greater Germany. These middle-aged men, huddled in threadbare coats, drinking a hot brew instead of the good old Moselle wine, might seem almost pitifully ridiculous. But their German dream had made Hitler and, given another chance, they might attain...
Dreams of a Few. It is true that the words "under Hitler things were better" can be heard on every street in Germany, but that is no indication of Nazi-mindedness-it is a human and inevitable harking back to times when things were better (in a material sense). The future is an utter blank. To escape into the past is the only way out. Were the occupation forces to withdraw, a demagogue might find fruitful soil, as Adolf Hitler did 20 years ago. Given a leader, the Germans would again follow, as they have followed before. But today they...
...said: "Hurrah for the Allies, Death to Hitler...
...second said: "EAM" (National Liberation Front, the leftist anti-Hitler organization which became an instrument of Communist terror...
Conductor Walter, one of the half-dozen greatest by anybody's ranking, was a pre-Hitler conductor of the Vienna Staatsoper. His strength is also his weakness: he does best by the Central Europeans-Brahms, Mozart, Mahler, Bruckner, et al.-but plays little else...