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...Strauss as having once been a member of the Nazi party. Strauss was never a member of the Nazi party. On the contrary, Strauss's father, a butcher, was an outspoken anti-Nazi. As for Strauss himself, he was drafted into the army, and his repeated criticism of Hitler's war caused him no end of trouble. At war's end, having been cleared of any Nazi connections by the American occupation forces, he was made a civilian administrative official for a district in Bavaria. A year later he founded the Christian Social Union...
...once. Twenty-five years ago this week, as the war in Europe rolled toward its end, the rulers of two of the Axis powers died violently, scarcely 48 hours apart. Benito Mussolini perished on April 28, 1945, executed by a Communist partisan as he tried to flee Italy. Adolf Hitler died in Berlin on April 30, apparently by swallowing a cyanide capsule. On the double anniversary, TIME's Benjamin Cate in Bonn and James Bell in Rome examine the ways in which the two are remembered...
...political spectrum Reston is leaning toward, he very pointedly referred to William F. Buckley. Jr., editor of the conservative "National Review." as "my colleague." In its turn, the "National Review" ran an article attempting to prove that the origins of a quote used by Douglas, and attributed to Hitler, cannot in fact be found, thereby supposedly invalidating the quote. Nowhere does anyone deal with the issues raised in the essay, nor with the implications of its arguments...
...Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. And what about whites? "I couldn't say who was my hero," said Carmichael, in Manhattan after a 14-month African exile. "But if you could ask me who I think was the greatest white man-" "Who was that?" asked Frost. "I would think Adolf Hitler," said Stokely impulsively. As the audience gasped, booed and jeered, he quickly added, "When you talk about greatness, you don't put ethical or moral judgments on them...
Grass is much given to parody. Hitler's military jargon, for instance, is spoofed in delusive GHQ commands sent out to recapture the Führer's lost German shepherd, Prinz, as the Third Reich crumbles. Sample: "On the JüterbogTorgau line, projected antitank trenches are replaced by Führerdogtraptrenches." Often the bristliest bits in Grass's prose derive from what critics refer to as "thing magic" (Dingmagie), those long inventories of physical objects that Grass compiles to retrieve German from abstraction and the swarms of technical terms he uses, mostly derived from...