Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only Way. These 20 strangely dissimilar men in Nürnberg's dock had been drawn together by the forces that shaped Germany after World War I and by Adolf Hitler. For all the German people knew or cared last week, Hitler was in hell or in Valhalla. Nor did they care about the 20 or their punishment. In Berlin, where Allied loudspeakers relayed the trial news in public squares, most pedestrians did not even stop to listen. In a Berlin poll last week, Grete Schweinchen, a social worker, expressed a widespread German reaction: "It's carrying...
Whether or not Germans were impressed, the trials were the only way humanity had found to bring Hitler's heirs to judgment...
...have no purpose to incriminate the whole German people"). The case against the 20 men in the dock rested on the prosecution's theory of "individual responsibility" ("Who was responsible for these crimes if they were not?"). This theory in turn rested on the premise that Adolf Hitler, such top Nazis as the dead Heinrich Himmler, the 20 in the dock and some 2,000,000 members of the Nazi Party's "Leadership Corps" (the Gestapo, SA, SS, etc.) had imposed Naziism on 70,000,000 Germans, and then, with the German military's help, had "driven...
...leaders of Naziism had undoubtedly conspired for aggressive war, and had then waged it according to horrendously detailed plans. But the prosecution's premise-the responsibility, of comparatively few-was all too familiar. In the years when Mussolini and Hitler were rising, just such theories had led the libertarian world to dismiss Fascism and Naziism as the work of a few bullyboys...
...When Hitler came, Figl, who opposed Anschluss, obscurely and honorably disappeared into concentration camps, first Dachau, then Flossenburg. After six years the Nazis slipped up, set him free. Promptly Figl set to work as an organizer in what little underground movement Austria developed. He represented the Austrian resistance in contacts with the much stronger Polish underground. After liberation he founded the Volkspartei of small agrarians, much like Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...