Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shirer's exhaustive 1959 history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. "Historical villains can sometimes become heroes as the years pass," says Producer-Director Jack Kaufman. "I think it's important to remind young people not to dismiss past horrors lightly or think of Hitler as a kind of fantasy or legend...
...Indeed, "the West, and especially the U.S., has no choice but to accept the Soviet challenge on the seas." We need only think of what Hitler could have done with Gorshkov's fleet to see the reason. How the history of the world would have been changed. Seapower will ensure us of more than a posthumous footnote in future history...
Suddenly, the mood of amiable derision turned sour. Reason: Lübke was accused of putting his signature of approval on blueprints for barracks in Hitler's death camps during World War II. Lübke came under such heavy attack that last week, in an extraordinary move for a head of state, he bowed to public pressure and appeared on nationwide German TV to answer charges about his wartime activities. In a brief, four-minute telecast, he traced his wartime career as an auditor in a Berlin architect's office that designed plants and workers' barracks...
...symbol of all that they find wrong with West Germany. University professors called on him to explain, and Der Stern's Editor in Chief Henri Nannen hounded him to resign. The irony was that Nannen himself was accused of having been a strong follower of Hitler during the Nazi period...
...play changes shape in the eye and era of the beholder. When Tiger at the Gates was written in 1935, the shadow of Hitler fell across the world and darkened the significance of Jean Giraudoux' drama. In its first U.S. production in 1955, the menace of McCarthyism seemed to be echoed in the play. Doubtless the mentors of Manhattan's Lincoln Center now see this tragic confrontation between the Greeks and the Trojans as a cautionary parable of the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, though the analogy is wrenchingly sophomoric. The sad fact is that Tiger cannot carry...