Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luther is accused [TIME, April 1] of being the evil genius of Germany's absolutism, worse than Hitler. But in his Secular Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed, he writes: "But when a prince is in the wrong, are his people bound to follow him then too? I answer, No, for it is no one's duty to do wrong." Hardly compatible with the accusation leveled...
...been a dreamy, unhealthy child. One of its parents had repudiated it even before birth. The other nations had little more time or use for it, as it shifted about Geneva's hired halls. When at last in 1936 it moved into its own $10-million Geneva home, Hitler was also moving-into the Rhineland...
George Strausser Messersmith was U.S. consul general in Berlin when Hermann Goring paid him a call one day. Hitler's No. 2 man was in his usual arrogant mood. He swept his hand over a map of South America. There was one of Germany's spheres of influence, he boasted, and began pounding the table. Messersmith stopped him. "This is my house," Messersmith said coldly. "No one pounds the table here but me. If there is any pounding done, I will...
...Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress for the sin of reflecting too faithfully "the physiognomy of the reigning class, [of] too ostentatious Government officials . . . officers . . . Junkers [and] the subservient spirit of the small bourgeoisie." In this tradition, Simplicissimus also faithfully recorded each new step in Adolf Hitler's rise to power-a rise which Simpl found too ludicrous to be believable...
...years passed and the menace of Hitler became unmistakable, Editor Schoenberner experienced the pain of watching most of Simpl's staff succumb slowly but surely to the enemy. Strange palsies seized the hands of cartoonists when they were asked to depict Hitler; a poet who had made Germany laugh with his verses "On Hitler's Mustache" took to wearing a brown shirt. When Hitler's minions broke into the offices to tear them apart, they found a magazine that was already dead by its own hand...