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...Hitler's Willing Executioners (Knopf). In the year's most talked about book, Harvard historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen argues that the Holocaust should be blamed not just on the Nazi faithful but also on ordinary Germans. His evidence of widespread cruelty toward Jews by rank-and-file German soldiers seems irrefutable; his explanation for it has produced brisk debate on the source of human inhumanity...
...Part of Hitler's cultural program was the extirpation of what he called degenerate art--essentially, the kind of modernism of which Beckmann, in the early 1930s, was an acknowledged leader. Thus, soon after Hitler came to power in 1933, an entire apparatus of state censorship rolled over on Beckmann. His work was systematically removed from German museums; within five years, 600 of his paintings had been confiscated. After he and his wife fled, he lived and painted in Amsterdam for 10 years, using an old tobacco storeroom for a studio, and then in 1947 went to the U.S., where...
DIED. ARTUR AXMANN, 83, head of Hitler's notorious Nazi youth organization; in Berlin. Axmann claimed to have witnessed Hitler's 1945 suicide...
...Shahor's astonishment, a clerk boasted, "It is high quality and doesn't get dirty--all the boots worn by the Nazis in World War II were made of this material." One journalist wrote, "Today we sell Nazi black, tomorrow it can be SS green, and the day after Hitler brown...Good Lord, what have we come to?" At last word, the store's management hinted it would stop using the name...
DIED. HENRI NANNEN, 82, distinguished founder, editor and publisher of the popular German news magazine Stern; in Hanover, Germany. Nannen and Stern suffered a stunning embarrassment in 1983, when the magazine was duped into publishing a hoax, Hitler's "lost diaries...