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...Hebrew Bible is depicted as the faithful protector of his chosen people. Yet at least 6,000,000 Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. To believe in the God of the Covenant today, concludes Richard L. Rubenstein, Jews must affirm that their creator "used Adolf Hitler as the rod of his wrath to send his people to the death camps. I find myself utterly incapable of believing this. Even the existentialist leap of faith cannot resurrect this dead God after Auschwitz...
Over the past thirty years, a sprinkling of American Negro athletes has achieved international fame by competing in the Olympic Games. Jesse Owens is probably the best known for his four-gold-medal performance at Adolph Hitler's Berlin Olympaid. In addition, according to a recent Ebony survey, disproportionately high numbers of Negroes compete in American professional sports...
...rations ran out, and proud troops began to eat the flesh of horses, cats and rats. Hermann Goring's airlift brought only a fraction of the promised relief. The city's rubble grew so high that German tanks were unable to roll over it. Through it all, Hitler insisted that his generals stand firm, refusing to allow them to try to break out of the trap and save part of their army. Against his orders, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrendered, and on Feb. 2 the last pockets of resistance collapsed. For three days thereafter, Germans at home...
...regard the battle of Stalingrad as the turning point of World War II, though the Allies' invasion of Normandy and the successful defense of Britain certainly rival it for the honor. In any case, its impact was as much psychological as military. The battle proved the fallibility of Hitler and the vincibility of the Wehrmacht, which up to then had enjoyed little but victory. The magnitude of the Russian victory-91,000 prisoners were taken, including a field marshal and 20 generals*-aroused the dormant hopes of the Allies and gave them new confidence...
...bread basket and the Black Sea oil wells. After the battle, the Soviet armies paused only a few times before they had driven the Germans back to Germany. The victory also restored much respectability to a Communist movement tarnished in the 1930s by the Stalinist purges and the cynical Hitler-Stalin pact; the party signed up many new believers who mistakenly credited Communism-and not simply patriotism-for inspiring the Russian victory at Stalingrad...