Word: hitlerian
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...throughout the world between 1945 and 1950. Nuremberg was aimed at top policymakers, upon whom it imposed liability for two new offenses under international law. These were "crimes against peace," such as waging aggressive war, and "crimes against humanity," such as mass murder and similar malevolent policies on the Hitlerian scale...
National maturity, sanity and compassion, we are again reminded, do not come readily. In our ubiquitous display and near deification of Old Glory, might we not unwittingly be borrowing a page from Hitlerian Germany? Respect, like love, cannot be dictated-or produced by fiat...
...extremists "who would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down." In Pusey's angry view, such agitators-specifically, the S.D.S.-use techniques akin to those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, for whom Pusey served as a favorite target. He cited the Hitlerian tactic of "the big lie"-in this case, the radicals' claim "that the university is a hopelessly bigoted, reactionary force in our society which serves the interest of a hideous military-industrial complex...
...film progresses, Lieut. Minderbinder descends from mess-hall hustler to full-time racketeer. In a crude and overdrawn caricature, the loutish blond fly-boy suddenly becomes a Hitlerian symbol who bombs American bases in a deal with the Germans and sells stocks in the war because it is good business. Here Nichols?like Heller?cannot let hell enough alone, and Engine Charlie's oft-quoted G.M. dictum is paraphrased "What's good enough for M-M Enterprises is good...
...says FitzGibbon, represents a permanent loss to Germany. The reproach of the count-me-outers, alas, has not kept the convicted German war criminals-including SS General Kurt ("Panzer") Meyer, found responsible for the murder of Canadian prisoners of war-from becoming heroes to extremist groups in the post-Hitlerian Reich...