Word: hitlered
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...book gives a detailed account of the family's anti-Semitism and its attachment to Hitler. Even after the war, Wolfgang's mother Winifred said she longed to see the Fuhrer come through the door again. To his credit, Wolfgang ! has banished any trace of anti-Jewish bias from the festival...
...great strength is the balance he maintains in his well-organized narrative. Music history, cultural comment and such issues as the family's embrace of Nazism are all deftly combined. Spotts told TIME he was so determined to maintain the right proportions that he omitted his biggest scoop: that Hitler sexually abused the young Wieland during the '20s. If he had gone into that scandal, Spotts says, "it would be all anybody wrote about...
...Festspielhaus. He engineered the completion of the theater specifically for this 15 1/2-hour tetralogy about a peculiarly human race of gods and demigods who were ruined by their greed for a cursed treasure of gold. Heads of state -- from mad King Ludwig of Bavaria to the much madder Adolf Hitler -- have made the pilgrimage to this isolated city in northern Bavaria to hear the master as he wanted to be heard...
...took rain checks. An OSS operative during World War II, Berg traveled widely, lived well and managed to be where trouble wasn't. In 1944 he was at a conference in peaceful Switzerland to hear a lecture by Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel prizewinning physicist who headed Hitler's atom-bomb project. Berg's orders were to shoot the scientist if it became apparent that the Nazis were close to producing a nuclear weapon. Berg did not know enough physics or German to be sure whether or not he should shoot, and he didn't. The genius who formulated the uncertainty...
...Zhirinovsky's task of uniting the former Soviet republics seems Herculean compared with Hitler's task of subjugating Germany and its people; the Soviet Union failed to keep all the languages, cultures and peoples of Central and East Asia together at gun point. How can Zhirinovsky possibly expect to do so with street brawling, rhetoric, and mass appeal...