Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimate test of the character of an individual or an institution or a government is: Can it stand being laughed at? Hitler couldn't, nor Mussolini. It is doubtful if Stalin could long survive under a system which permitted Capp and his ilk to have their...
...regularly sent us his Christmas gift order. It was always addressed to the same three people because, as he put it: "They need a clear, true, balanced story of the news more than any other three men in the world." The three were the late Adolf Hitler, the late Benito Mussolini, and the Emperor of Japan...
...accuse the Hitler system," cried Sachsenhausen's Dr. Heinz Baumkoetter. (He used to pour burning phosphorus on his patients, so that afterwards he could test the efficacy of burn salves.) "I accuse the system which made me-a harmless man by nature-into a criminal against humanity." Only dandified, cadaverous Willy Shubert, who had once earned a medal and a holiday in Italy for helping to kill 18,000 Russians in three months, refused to grovel. "I killed men on orders," he boasted, "and I killed men without orders." Sachsenhausen's commander in chief, pig-eyed, bulletheaded Anton...
Elsewhere, the German attitude toward outsiders is a curious combination of bitterness and self-centered smugness. German after German told me solemnly that Hitler's only mistake lay in trying to do the right things the wrong way. They actually believe that nobody ever suffered as they have suffered. They want to tell their troubles and, like a girl I met in Munich, are not interested in hearing the troubles of others. This girl had lamented at length over Munich's overcrowding...
...zone is the" smallest and worst run of the four. "The French have cut more wood in two years than the Germans cut in 50," said a German forester. A businessman in Coblenz told me: "The French had a wonderful opportunity here. We had had our noses full of Hitler. They wanted the Rhineland, and we wanted something different from what we had. They could have won us. But their tactics have lost us completely...