Word: hitlering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...asked ourselves what face we could give to the virus, and it couldn't be a pretty face.' DIRK SILZ, creative director for Germany's new "AIDS Is a Mass Murderer" campaign, explaining the choice of Adolf Hitler as the virus's human embodiment...
Were any of these stories almost too painful to report? As a Jew, [I found that] Hitler was very difficult to write about. Every other story here is a tribute and a celebration of someone's life, so we struggled with whether it was appropriate to include him. Ultimately we agreed Hitler could not be overlooked...
Each story is obviously very different, but were you able to identify any unexpected patterns? There were actually quite a few. None of the women, for instance, shot themselves, though many of the men did. Poisoning was favored by people in positions of power, such as Hitler. Most of the actors chose to be cremated. And there was also the unusual discovery that authors who write in the first person are far more at risk for suicide...
...following clues they gleaned from, among other things, conversations overheard at the dentist, interviews behind enemy lines and Nazi records recovered from bombed-out cathedrals. By 1951, they had restituted 5 million objects - including 5,000 church bells the Nazis had planned to melt down. (See pictures of Adolf Hitler's rise to power...
...Historical details come thick and fast, but Edsel manages to keep the narrative breezy. The book's best moments come as the war draws to an end and the Monuments Men discover booty in the salt mines at Altaussee in northern Austria. There, Hitler's troops had stored 10,000 of their most prized pieces, including Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges, a 4-ft. (1.3 m) marble statue found "lying on her side on a filthy brown-and-white mattress." The Monuments Men wrapped her in coats, paper and rope before placing her in a cart. "I think we could...