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...July 1943, I lost members of my family, friends and my home through Anglo-American air raids, which almost destroyed my home town. These raids on Hamburg and other German cities, terrifying and hate-inspiring as they were at the time, played a decisive role in destroying Hitler's totalitarianism. Now I am a Canadian citizen. I am firmly convinced that my present religious and political freedom are owed directly to American participation in World War II. I do not envy President Johnson's position as far as the war in Viet Nam is concerned, but I understand...
...death. We of the N.A.A.C.P. will have none of this. We have fought it too long. It is the ranging of race against race on the irrelevant basis of skin color. It is the father of hatred and the mother of violence. It is a reverse Mississippi, a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan." Martin Luther King announced that he would consider launching a wave of civil-disobedience demonstrations as an alternative to the violent tenets of the black-power movement, but he too warned that black power is "racism in reverse. The use of the phrase gives...
...month in Paris Match. Headlines blared: "These are the Nazis of 1966. Their success disturbs Germany. They have forgotten nothing. They have understood nothing." To prove the point, the magazine ran two pictures of young men decked out in Nazi regalia; in one they are saluting a bust of Hitler and in another, so the story said, they are carousing and singing the Horst Wessel song...
...provocative were the pictures, they were picked up by the London Daily Express, which reprinted them with a new caption: "For Hitler-greetings from the new Nazis." Moscow television also made the most of the Paris Match spread. On a program marking the 25th anniversary of the German invasion of Russia, the pictures were shown after some film clips of De Gaulle's visit. Said the announcer: "As one can see, West Germany today is a gigantic cradle of neo-Nazism...
Casual Joke. In Germany, the pictures stirred immediate suspicions. For one thing, the alleged Nazis sported shaggy locks, a grooming no genuine Hitler youth would approve of. For another, a girl wore a Nazi party arm band, a decoration never permitted the weaker sex. And there was a package of French cigarettes on the table. Whoever heard of a Nazi indulging a decadent French taste? Sensing a phony, Munich reporters soon smoked...