Word: hitler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A three-part TV adaptation of William Shirer's 1960 history traces the course of Hitler's life through film clips, interviews with onetime Nazis and further reflections by Author Shirer on political and economic conditions in Germany from 1920 to 1945. Part 2 will be shown at the same time on Friday and Part 3 from 9:30-10:30 on Saturday night...
After German setbacks in early 1943, Hitler offered Stalin a deal to swap Yakov, who had resisted Nazi blandishments to defect to the German cause, for the German field marshal who surrendered at Stalingrad. Stalin turned down the proposal, replying: "You have in your hands not only my son Yakov but millions of my sons. Either you free them all or my son will share their fate." According to his Russian cellmate, it was the news that his father had refused to ransom him that drove Yakov to despair and his suicidal attempt to escape...
Chain of Apathy. Morse, whose book is subtitled "A Chronicle of American Apathy" reaches the same conclusion. In the U.S., he says, "a combination of political expediency, diplomatic evasion, isolationism, indifference and raw bigotry played directly into the hands of Adolf Hitler even as he set in motion the final plans for the greatest mass murder in history...
...belongs to Congress, which refused to relax immigration laws even to save doomed children, and to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who feared that "the Jewish issue was a political liability." Above all, Morse blames the State Department, which refused for more than a decade after Hitler's rise to concede that he really was determined to annihilate Europe's Jews. Such an indictment by hindsight seems unduly harsh, particularly since so many Americans-and even so many European Jews-were either ignorant of Hitler's aim or could not believe that anybody would seek to destroy...
...brought many of the disciples of Sigmund Freud who were persecuted by Hitler to Boston. The Institute was an extraordinary thing for that time," said Cope...