Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pink triangles that gays wore in Miami are more than "reminiscent of the yellow star that Jews were forced to wear in Hitler's Germany" [June 20]; they are analogous. Gay people in Hitler's concentration camps were forced to wear pink triangles to show their status, just as Jews were forced to wear the yellow star. Hitler exterminated an estimated 220,000 gays in the concentration camps. Gay people wear the pink triangle today as a reminder of the past and a pledge that history will not repeat itself...
David is their youngest son, a curly-haired Adonis who dreams like a Don Quixote. David's tragedy is that he confuses morality, dignity romance and passion. He fights Hitler at Dunkirk, still haunted by the memory of prep school bigotry and the hollow echo of his father's words, offered as a feeble solace: "Some of my best friends are anti-Semites...
...outlined the design for a moon rocket. His genius led the German army to employ him in 1932 to develop liquid-fueled rockets; by 1937 it had moved him to the Baltic Sea port of Peenemünde, where began the work that led to Hitler's dreaded V-2 rocket. As the war drew to a close, Von Braun was considering a missile that could reach New York City...
Miami's homosexual activists-who organized well themselves-also overdramatized their case. Some gays attached pink triangles to their clothes, reminiscent of the yellow star that Jews were forced to wear in Hitler's Germany. This tactic backfired badly...
Frost kept probing for Nixon's view of the limits on presidential power. If burglary is all right, why not murder? "Ah, there are degrees, ah, there are nuances, ah, ah, which are difficult to explain," replied Nixon. He said that it might have been better to kill Hitler before he could order the murder of millions of Jews. Frost reminded Nixon that domestic dissidents were hardly comparable to the perpetrators of the Holocaust. Nixon finally agreed that only "the President's judgment" determined what was legal under this Nixonian doctrine of presidential supremacy...