Word: hitlering
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...boycotts are empty gestures. Governments boycott, athletes suffer, and the only thing that changes is that the credibility of the Olympics as a festival of goodwill suffers another dent. Jesse Owens had the right idea. In 1936 he led the U.S. team at Hitler's Berlin Olympics--a black man in the land of Aryan supremacy. His four gold medals proved that quiet excellence can be a most eloquent statement...
...text. Someone else used the margins of James Joyce’s Dubliners to observe how “very Irish” it all was. And a reader of my German history textbook circled every single word in a wholly unimportant paragraph, and then wrote “Hitler was a man” in the margin...
...beneath that cloak, things get a little murky because in presenting the facts as he does, Baker is making an argument that he doesn't explicitly state. Does he really believe--as he seems to--that aerial bombing is on a moral continuum with Nazi genocide? And that Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews is comparable to Churchill's hatred of the Germans and Japanese? (We get Mrs. Churchill calling them "Nazi hogs" and "yellow Japanese lice" in a letter?) Or that the world would be a better place if--delirious fantasy--Europe had met German aggression with nonviolent resistance...
...Rothschild collections were so well known that many works were traced and returned after World War II. The Israel Museum exhibits one luminous Dutch canvas by Pieter de Hooch stolen in Paris from Edouard de Rothschild and seized by Hitler's boundlessly rapacious second in command, Hermann Goering. But greed alone hardly explains the Nazis' frenzied grasp for Jewish-owned art, says curator Steinberg: "Taking an art collection was a way of stripping the Jew of what made him a citizen in the world." Out of gratitude for French help in restoring their stolen art, the Rothschilds donated...
...religious right as "agents of intolerance," John McCain still displays a religious tone deafness. Witness his campaign's recent enthusiastic reaction to the endorsement from Christian Zionist John Hagee. The Texas pastor has alluded to the Catholic Church as "the great whore" and has linked it to Hitler. It seems no one in McCain's camp was prepared for angry blowback from Catholics. The conservative Catholic League says McCain "has shown horrendous judgment in buddying up to this bigot." McCain will only say, "I obviously do not" agree with "all of Pastor Hagee's views...