Word: hitleritis
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...Soviet Russia were allies, and Moscow had seized the Baltic states as part of a carve-up of Eastern Europe provided for by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Even the massive German invasion seemed, paradoxically, to promise an end to Stalin's dictatorship. Russians began to hope that victory over Hitler would bring a political thaw at home after the brutality of the 1930s. They were quickly disillusioned. With victory, repression returned. Hundreds of thousands of returning pows were sent straight to the Gulag for the crime of being captured by the Germans. There's another kind of ambivalence about...
Even in these final months of the war, with Hitler already installed in his concrete bunker, Himmler’s directives continued, and the human machinery of degradation and destruction persisted in its mission to obliterate the Jews, regardless of their country of origin. In other words, American Jews were no different from their Continental cousins, in spite of what the Americans themselves felt to be an almost unbreachable divide between them and the Jews they were trying to rescue from the clutches of the Third Reich. In the end, as Kafka seemingly prophesied, they were all captives...
...European Jews ranks below the Soviet Union's systematic starvation of the rebellious Ukraine in 1932-33 (10 million by Stalin's count) and Mao's catastrophic Great Leap Forward into prolonged famine in 1957-62 (at least 27 million). Uganda and Kampuchea have produced more recent evidence that Hitler's policy of mass murder as an instrument of statecraft was not unique. Yet the Final Solution remains the archetype of man's bestiality to man, and there are compelling reasons for this to be so. The villain: Hitler still seems the embodiment of melodramatic evil, a spellbinder sent from...
...that half of New York seems to be waiting to get into the Public Theater? The answer is that, like many moralists with a pen, Shawn has set off a verbal time bomb, mostly in a series of monologues in which his characters rationalize all sorts of evils, including Hitler's atrocities. "I'm a rather amiable person," he says, "but I believe that our society is not just a little bit sick, but very, very, very sick. That's why I write the things I do about these diseased minds. There's something dangerous about the play in that...
...taken to lunch at Delmonico's by Sterling Fisher, then head of CBS's public affairs department. He said he wanted me there because he had a nasty job to perform. He had to fire CBS Newsman H.V. Kaltenborn, who was causing too much trouble with his anti-Hitler broadcasts. In the middle of lunch, Fisher told "H.V." he was through. At this point, before dessert, H.V., red in the face, excused himself and stalked out. Ironically, when the 1938 Munich crisis heated up, CBS called H.V. to come back and broadcast the crisis because only he understood German. Ruth...