Word: hitleritis
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...Hitler called his cruise missiles Vergeltungswaffen--vengeance weapons--but the Londoners who were their targets scornfully dubbed them doodlebugs. In the summer of 1944, more than 2,400 of the V-1 buzz bombs fell on England as the Nazi dictator made a last, futile attempt to break Britain's will. A half-century and a technological revolution later, the cruise missile has evolved into a superbly accurate flying bomb that can hit almost any spot on earth. It has also become President Bill Clinton's weapon of choice to provide the explosive oomph to back up his foreign...
...silence was the best policy--and here Pius' story intersects Stein's. According to Gumpel, Pius was about to issue his own four-page protest against the Jews' deportation when he got word of the Nazis' response to the Dutch church's defiance. He burned his own statement. Challenging Hitler overtly, says Gumpel, "would have been a grand theatrical gesture. But would it have helped the Jews? All evidence says it wouldn...
...described Stein as "a great daughter of Israel and the Carmelite order," and a high U.S. churchman reiterated last week that her canonization is seen as honoring the Shoah's Jewish victims. Indeed, early in this decade, it sometimes seemed that John Paul, who lost good Jewish friends to Hitler, would do almost anything to stamp out anti-Semitism and promote an honest respect between faiths. In the past year, however, it has become clearer that when such goals collide with the prerogatives and good name of his own house--the naming of saints, the reputations of his predecessors...
...1940s when psychoanalysis first became fashionable. At the end of the second World War, society--consumed by the nature versus nurture effects on behavior--came up on the side of nurture, believing that personality was shaped by the environment. Anything related to genetics sounded disarmingly like eugenics and Hitler's notion of racial superiority. And so society welcomed psychotherapy, with its egalitarian tenet that we are all "brothers" whose personalities are shaped (or misshaped) by our surroundings. As Dolnick observes, "Level-headed men and women occasionally succumb to giddy excitement over the stock market or the million dollar prize...
Reynolds also served on the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in 1945, which evaluated the effectiveness of U.S. bombing missions in World War II. On his first trip to Germany, Reynolds was among the first Americans to see Hitler's abandoned bunker...