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...waves of immigrants that have landed on American shores since the Pilgrims, the German refugees who fled from Hitler in the 1930s may qualify as the best and the brightest. An entire civilization could be reconstructed from the writers, artists, musicians, philosophers and scientists in their desperate ranks...
...student can enter the university. There is a bac given for each lycée track. The typical exam schedule involves ten hours of tests over a two-week period. All written exams are of the essay type (sample question: "Compare and contrast the roads to power of Hitler and Mussolini"), and most bacs culminate in an oral exam. To enter the grandes écoles, students must take another set of tests called concours, which generally demand an additional two years of preparation. The time is often well spent: if a student graduates from a grande école...
...Hitler's odious power to spellbind an audience has wreaked havoc once again in the furor over the fake diaries [May 16]. Even in death, Hitler has destroyed the reputation and credibility of gullible historians and editors, most notably those at the magazine Stern. All it took was a forger for the Fűhrer to bask in the limelight yet another time. Had the diaries proved authentic, then collectors would have been at one another's throats to own the journals of a man who caused such worldwide suffering...
...fact that the diaries were written in volumes produced after World War II does not prove they are forgeries; rather they may prove Hitler is still alive. He probably wrote them last year...
...pathology of moral relativism, which, the author contends, is responsible for most of the totalitarianism and terrorism of the past 60 years. Immoral acts were certainly not invented in the 20th century. But the worst modern tyrants committed their obscenities in the name of secular abstractions. Writes Johnson:"Hitler was totally irreligious and had no interest in honor or ethics. He believed in biological determinism, just as Lenin believed in historical determinism." Joseph Conrad foresaw the consequences of the unprincipled approach in Under Western Eyes when he wrote: "A violent revolution falls into the hands of narrow-minded fanatics...