Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most tragic irony in the whole history of the Hitler era was that he boldly announced his plans of conquest, while the rest of the world stood by, either unbelieving or too morally bankrupt to act. It is incredible that only one year after the conclusion of the bloodiest war in history, the United States, through the Act of Chapultepee, stands in quasi-alliance with the potentially great Fascist power of the next generation, while at the same time the Soviet Union enters upon diplomatic relations with that power. Whatever the decisions of the Paris conference, so long...
Perhaps in November. Hitler's ghost might wake the Hörselberg with sardonic laughter at the competition between the victors for Germany's favor. Yet so long as the Big Power conflict existed, competition for control of the most important nation in Europe was inevitable. If the game had to be played, why should the West, which held better cards, lose...
...young German actress (Max Reinhardt started her at 14), Hilda first learned about destiny, did a good deal to shape her own. She played before Hitler and Göring. In London she met Anthony Eden, and this brought the Gestapo around. She told them what she has since told other snoopers: "I do not make politic." In St. Moritz for the skiing, Hilda was introduced to U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. He helped her get a visa...
...17th Century documents to rediscover the original plans, masons cut through walls in search of the original foundations, and 23 stonecarvers-using Renaissance techniques-worked seven years to restore the first friezes and façades. The war was no interruption: they worked right through the occupation, and when Hitler's rocket bombs were blanketing the port they used bricks from blasted buildings to make the restored parts look less new. No bomb ever...
...Unitarian service Committee representative in Vienna sent as telegram from Geneva on July 20, which said in part: "Harvard student action meets terrible need Austrian universities. Situation Vienna students particularly catastrophic. . . . Committee of wronged students who during Hitler ear excluded from university for racial reasons and active participation resistance movement. This Komitee Der Geschaedigten Studenten has 1,500 members certified victims of Nazism. . . . These students now lacking resources are forced to earn livelihood on the side irrespective of extreme malnutrition and illnesses contracted during long confinement camps. . . . Many valuable students lacking physical strength to continue face giving up studies. Anticipated...