Word: hitlerism
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...Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; in Danbury, Connecticut. After writing six unpublished novels and 25 unproduced plays, Toland discovered the historical-nonfiction genre with a 1957 book about dirigibles. He followed The Rising Sun with books about the Korean War and an Adolf Hitler biography. His 1982 book Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath asserted that the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration had advance knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a claim widely denounced by historians...
...doing so will probably fall before the year is out, triggering another election. Reform-minded Serbs, still a majority but splintered among several parties, are glumly comparing their country to post WW-I Germany, when a series of weak governments gave way to the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler. "We live in a Weimar reality," said Djordje Vukadinovic, a Belgrade political scientist. - By Andrew Purvis See: Going To Extremes Painful Progress PORTUGAL Prosecutors brought formal charges against 10 high-profile suspects held in preventive custody since early 2003 in connection with a long-running pedophile scandal. Those indicted on child...
...chapters on the British disaster on Crete in 1941 ("Foreknowledge No Help"), on the Americans' immense triumph at Midway a year later (a world-historical victory that owed as much to luck, Keegan ingeniously argues, as to intelligence) and the struggle of British intelligence to locate and destroy Hitler's U-boat offensive against England...
...stereotypical qualities. The killers do indeed play violent, dehumanizing computer games, but they also seem genuinely to care about each other, and one plays the piano with an undeniable talent and passion for Beethoven. Some of their weaponry may be delivered while the two watch a TV documentary fetishizing Hitler, but viewers of the History Channel know it’s not unlikely that the same footage will appear on cable a dozen times more before the end of the month...
...Germans were swept off their feet by Hitler,” says Maier regarding Sannwald’s dubious political position. “People might have poor political judgment… [but] we still might commemorate them...