Word: hitlering
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...brutal war had scarcely subsided in 1939 before Europe's war began. Despite his debts to Germany and Italy for their help in his victory, Franco avoided the bigger battle, and even turned aside a German request for permission to attack Gibraltar through Spain. Franco and Hitler met for nine hours one day in 1940 to discuss the question. By the end of their conversation, Hitler was unnerved by Franco's high-pitched monotone. "The man is not cut out to be a politician," the Führer complained later. "I would rather have three or four teeth...
...rest of Europe insists on remembering all too clearly who it was that cheered for Hitler in World War II. The Benelux countries in particular are vehemently opposed to letting Spain into the Common Market club, so long as it is ruled by Franco or anyone like him. On the other hand, Western Europe hopes to influence the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the direction of liberalism, with a policy of "Wandel dutch annäherung," or "change through drawing nearer," as West German Chancellor Willy Brandt puts it. That same policy might equally and more profitably be applied...
...Producers, two shysters raise far more backing than necessary, then mount the worst musical play they can find, hoping to abscond after a disastrous opening (and closing) night with their pockets full of unspent production money. For their sure-fire disaster, they chose a project called Springtime for Hitler. Had the script of The Great Waltz been available, it might have served just as well...
...through Macmillan) in the U.S. Sixteen volumes and 12,000 pages long, totaling more than 12 million words, it is the first major Jewish encyclopedia in any language in 65 years. The work was begun during the early 1930s in Germany but became one of the first casualties of Hitler's 1933 book burning. In 1966 it was started over from scratch in Israel, this time in English. Bankrolled mainly by loans from the Israeli government and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the $5 million project utilized computer tapes and the brainpower of some 2,500 scholars...
...Hitlers": Psychoanalyst Walter Langer's conclusion that "the difference between Hitler and other psychopaths was his ability to convince others that he is what he is not" suggests to me that it is equally important to analyze what made so many others willing to accept and follow this irrational behavior. If the mass psyche is so vulnerable, it could happen again and again. Could it happen here...