Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LAST DAYS OF HITLER (254 pp.)-H. R. Trevor-Roper-Mac/n/7/an...
Ugliest Aspect. At Eccles, in Lancashire, one Jack Piggott drew six months' imprisonment for smashing a Jewish-owned shop window and leading a crowd of 700, some of whom shouted what few Britons had ever been expected to shout: "Hitler was right." At Holyhead, a laborer was fined for smashing the windows of two Jewish shops. In London, two women arrested for pitching bricks through Oxford Street windows said: "We did it because the owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole...
Since no body has ever been found, the question of Hitler's death is still a topic that haunts historians. One of these two new books gives an apparently authentic description of several plots on Hitler's life; the other tries to piece together the details of his death. Both deserve considerable credence. Trevor-Roper's book, the heart of which has already appeared in LIFE, is the report of the official British historian. Gisevius, a German, was rescued from Germany by the OSS, which thus, to some extent, vouches...
...news was Danton's Death, composed by young (28) Gottfried von Einem, Austria's newest claim to musical fame. Einem had set to music Georg Büchner's 1834 drama of the French Revolution: he was inspired, he said, by the plot on Hitler's life, and the Nürnberg trials. Einem and his father, trying to escape to England in 1938, were jailed by the Nazis; his mother was imprisoned by the French, as a suspected collaborator...
...uses as a measuring-rod a man he knows only by a card in a file, Adam Lorenz, an anti-Nazi journalist who had stood up to Hitler before & after 1933. From Lorenz' father, wife and friends, Cooper learns that Lorenz too had to fight the unheroic in himself. He had become a hero, a concentration-camp veteran, because he had been afraid not to be one. Cooper's search for Lorenz, against orders from his superiors, becomes the major action of the book. "If I've come this far . . . it's because...