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Actually if one looks back, "turning points" seem to abound in the past half century of German history. From the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 to the initiation of Chancellor; Brandt's Ostpolitik in 1970. Germans have time and again confronted radical shifts and new beginnings in national policies...
...recorded a fair share of what may be called striking "anticlimaxes" or aborted crises. These were moments in which history failed to turn a likely corner, failed to move in new directions. Think for example of the "might-have-beens" connected with such anticlimaxes as the unsuccessful assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944, the Berlin Blockade of 1948, the soon vanquished East German uprising of June 17, 1953, even the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 However much we may lament or applaud the eventual denouement of these prospectively momentous watersheds, they did turn out somehow...
...Koestler was never able to derive much joy from the past tense. He had seen his books vilified by Hitler's and Stalin's minions. Now he wished to hear no more about them. "The bitter passion has burned itself out," he decided. "Cassandra has gone hoarse and is due for a vocational change...
Louis' criticisms about Gandhi's views on non-violence serve to reinforce one's faith in Gandhi. To remain true to the principles of non-violence even in the face of possible annihilation requires real courage. Hitler's attack on Europe provided a testing ground for these principles and Gandhi stood by them. Far from being despicable, this attitude is admirable if only for its total honesty. As for Louis' penetrating insights into Gandhi's experiments with abstinence, anyone who has the least bit of interest in Gandhi's life will not be surprised by them. They are common knowledge...
...shipwright in Singapore and a professor of English literature in China and Alabama, Payne produced as many as six or seven books a year on subjects ranging from early Christian history to Greta Garbo's films. His best-known works, biographies of such men as Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and Gandhi, were highly readable but broke little new interpretive or historical ground...