Word: hitlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zwink-Oberammergau's twinkling-eyed Judas. He is also Oberammergau's most unpopular man. Villagers resent Zwink's sense of humor and his philosophical detachment, gossip that he is touched in the head. But his most objectionable symptom seems to be his longtime anti-Naziism. When Hitler took over Germany in 1934 Zwink retired from village life and kept to his house, painting bad portraits and canvases of church interiors. A calendar portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hung on his wall throughout the war. He defines himself as an anti-Nazi "with a clean conscience." When someone made...
Though its next curtain call is still three years off, Oberammergau is already wondering who will step into the cast to fill the many gaps left by Hitler, war, hard times and old age. St. Peter, St. John and St. Joseph are all due to come before the denazifying Spruchkammer at Garmisch-Partenkirchen within the next few weeks. Bearded, cherubic Hubert (St. Peter) Mayr, who runs the village creamery, joined the party in 1937, and now says: "Why not? It cost me one mark, 50 pfennig-which I could afford. If I didn't join, they'd have...
...reveal itself through the movies it turns out? An expert who thinks so, and has written a book to prove his point, is German-born Dr. Siegfried Kracauer, who apparently knows a good bit about both psychology and German movies. As sociology, Dr. Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler (Princeton University Press; $5) depends pretty heavily on historical hindsight. As movie lore, it may fascinate cinemagoers who know little about German films except that they gave the world Marlene Dietrich, Peter Lorre, Emil Jannings and Director Fritz Lang...
...posed the same question for U.S. businessmen who had armed the U.S. war machine. The U.S. indicted 24 former German industrialists, all officials of I. G. Farben Co., as war criminals, the first such indictment against businessmen in history. Among those whom it placed in the same category as Hitler and Göring were Farben's board chairman Hermann Schmitz and Georg von Schnitzler, sales manager, who were mainly responsible for the growth of Farben into the world's most powerful chemical giant. The U.S. charged the 24 civilians with fomenting and waging aggressive war, mass murder...
...word indictment that linked Farben to six U.S. corporations and to some 500 others throughout the world, the U.S. charged that "Hitler . . . and Farben found a basis for close collaboration as early as 1932. [Hitler] came to power with generous financial assistance from Farben and . . . Farben's foreign agents formed the core of Nazi intrigue throughout the world. . . . Ostensibly acting only as businessmen, [they] carried on propaganda and espionage activities indispensable to German preparation for and waging of aggressive...