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...contrary, oppressed groups are rarely permitted to pick up the weapons of war. Hitler did not send the Jews to fight and die on the Russian front. Most black Americans spent that war digging latrines, cooking, waiting on mess tables and acting as body servants...
...Also-rans: Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, William Shakespeare, Albert Schweitzer. Visitors to Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London voted Churchill the Hero of All Time, ahead of Jesus, John F. Kennedy, Admiral Nelson and Joan of Arc. As Most Hated and Feared, the waxwork freaks voted Hitler and Mao Tse-tung one and two. President Nixon ranked fourth. Three tied for fifth place-Prime Minister Edward Heath, Dracula and Vice President Spiro Agnew...
Inside the Third Reich, by Albert Speer. An unusually intimate view of the workings of Nazi Germany by one of Hitler's closest aides...
...monument. Then, unexpectedly, he dropped to his knees. For an electrifying half-minute, his face sculpted in deep emotion, Brandt knelt on the pavement. It is particularly noteworthy that this symbolic act of national atonement was performed by a man who spent World War II in voluntary exile from Hitler's Germany...
...wildly complicated inventions that today can be seen as a prediction of the world's foundering in technology. Goldberg's contraptions used owls and trumpets to nominate people for political office, pistols and crows to feed an infant and rock its cradle. There was even a Hitler-kicking machine that gave the Führer his comeuppance via a cat, a mouse and a stripteaser. Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes (C) overcome Republican...