Word: hitlering
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...memoir, Peeling the Onion, which was published in Germany last year and in the U.S. this summer, Grass revealed for the first time that, after joining the armed forces at age 16 in the fall of 1944, he was drafted into the SS, the fanatical branch of Adolf Hitler's army -although by the time he took up arms, the war was all but over. (He writes, credibly, that he never actually fired a shot.) Grass's memoir describes in detail the conditions he encountered in the chaotic retreat before the advancing Red Army in the closing months...
...praised the German writer for his intellectual contributions as well as for his frequent public statements that Germany had no claim on lands lost to Poland in the war. "For all his life Grass has been against erasing memory, erasing history and putting responsibility just on history and Adolf Hitler," Huelle wrote in the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. "His analysis of fascism and German crimes have always showed that it wasn't a devil that tempted Germans but ordinary people who for their benefit accepted step by step the escalation of evil and violence...
...Look,” she said, staring me in the eye. “What happened to the Koreans during the Japanese colonial time? It’s the same thing as what happened to the Jews with Hitler...
...next 20 minutes were surreal. Question after question came from her mouth, and they ranged from the astonishingly easy to answer (“Was Hitler the only one who hated the Jews?”) to the impossible (“Why did people hate the Jews...
...surprising, giving their authoritarian nature that antismoking reformers might object to children seeing images of heavy-smoking leaders like Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt, but would have no qualms about youngsters being exposed to photos of tobacco-hating Adolf Hitler...