Word: hitleritis
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...with the square moustache jumped onto a table and fired a shot into the ceiling of the Buergerbraukeller, a large beer hall in Munich. "The national revolution has begun," he shouted. Not quite. Adolf Hitler was forcing the issue. With Germany seething at the spineless Weimar government over the humiliating terms of the World War I armistice, Hitler sensed an opportunity. Just before 9 p.m., his Nazis launched a putsch, or coup d'etat, taking three powerful officials hostage. With hundreds of his Storm Troopers surrounding the hall, he compelled the trio to support him. But Nazi euphoria was fleeting...
When I finished the marathon, Hitler waved to me, and I thumbed my nose at him. That's my claim to fame. But Jesse told me, "Kelley, Hitler waved to me, and I waved back." That's actually what happened. When he won his fourth medal that day, after setting three world records, Jesse was the hero of the whole Games. To everyone. Except for Hitler. The dictator looked almost unbeatable at the time, but Jesse's victories upset his theory about an Aryan master race. Jesse Owens was the greatest track athlete we have ever...
...Hitler, by some reports, spent the week before the invasion confined to the Reich Chancellery, the opulent quarter-mile edifice he had built to symbolize Germany's might. During that time, he subsisted on a spartan diet of vegetables, buttered bread and his custom-brewed 1%-alcohol beer. He slept little, usually going to bed at sunrise...
...optimistic scenarios, U.S. officials had imagined their forces being welcomed into Baghdad by cheering crowds, like those that had greeted the liberators of Paris in 1944. But Saddam may be nurturing a World War II image of his own - the brutal battle for Stalingrad that broke the back of Hitler's offensive and decisively turned the tide of the war. (Saddam, being something of a student of Stalin, may also be encouraged by the fact that although Russians loathed their dictator, they fought bravely to defend their country from invasion - even if sometimes it was the guns pointed at their...
...congratulating them and its own sense of liberality. In 1972 Oscar welcomed back Charles Chaplin, another distinguished foreigner who liked his girls young. It happens that "The Pianist" was a perfect comeback film: a Holocaust film that (like "Schindler's List") is about a Jew outliving Hitler with the help of the goyim; and a semi-autobiography of Polanski, himself a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and after all these years eligible to be considered not a cunning predator but a wily victim. It's also a good movie in Hollywood epic style: a precise, conventional melodrama that teems with...