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...newspaper caricatured Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher wearing a swastika, and Turkish President Turgut Ozal darkly warned that "Germany changed a lot after unification. It is as if it is trying to intervene in everything, interfere with everyone, trying to prove it is a great power. In the past, Hitler's Germany did the same thing." The attack was intemperate and unfair -- it was Turkey that had been behaving brutally, not Germany -- and anger with the Ankara government ran so high in Germany that Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg resigned for having failed to stop the arms shipments earlier. Kohl rightly...
...burst of assertive energy. The term gulf syndrome is applied to German leaders who, stung by criticism of their early reluctance to support Desert Storm, are determined never again to be thought timid. There is even some concern that Kohl is going too far in that direction. "Except for Hitler you have to go back a long way to find a German head of government who speaks so provocatively and insensitively about the outside world," says Heinrich Jaenecke, a columnist for the weekly Stern. "Hubris has led this nation astray more than once. The old symptoms are reappearing...
Historian Alan Bullock compares the evils of Hitler and Stalin...
...eliminate them, Hitler had an ultimate plan to conquer Ukraine and European Russia for colonization by racially pure Aryans. The original Slavic populations would be deported or kept as slaves, educated only enough "to understand our highway signs." In 1941 Hitler actually began to carry out that program and in going to war with the Soviet Union also put into effect his "final solution to the Jewish problem," the extermination of European Jewry. While Stalin had more people put to death than Hitler did, Bullock maintains the Nazi Holocaust is unique because "mass murder became not an instrument...
Russia, under Stalin's direction, was Hitler's nemesis in World War II. But while that war freed most of Germany from despotism, the shackles of Stalinism stayed in place in the Soviet Union for another 40 years. Russia is still trying to find its way toward democracy. Bullock maintains that only a confluence of violent upheavals and unusual leaders can produce a Hitler or a Stalin, and "such occasions are not common." But it has happened within living memory, and Bullock's monumental history reminds us how unwise it would be to conclude it cannot happen again...