Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GERMANS AGAINST HITLER, by Terence Prittie. Historians have been curiously reticent about the Germans who fought Hitler from the pulpit, in pamphlets and by direct action-mostly at the cost of their lives. Prittie's book does belated justice to those who battled Nazi totalitarianism...
Twenty-five years ago, Hitler's planes and Panzers invaded Poland, plunging Europe and eventually some 53 nations into the planet's bloodiest war. At the time, Hitler pretended that the Poles had forced him to fight. But in ceremonies across the nation last week commemorating the ugly anniversary, West German leaders were in no mood to shrug off their country's responsibility...
...Willy Brandt unveiled a memorial to European unity with the plea that "the dead of the nations of Europe shall not have passed into nothingness." Free Democratic Party Leader Erich Mende in a broadcast beamed into East Germany reminded his listeners that it was Stalin's pact with Hitler a week earlier that had made the rape of Poland possible...
...Prittie notes regretfully in this well-balanced, unemotional book, many Germans seem curiously ignorant about the opposition to Hitler; yet in the end it was that "other Germany," small as it was, that "put the German nation, so brilliantly efficient, so talented, and so lacking in the power of self-examination, on the road to finding its own soul...
Richard Condon's apocalyptic pocketa-pocketa has produced a resplendent collection of giants, ogres and drowsy princesses, all flimsily disguised as people. They reappear in this grim foray into Hitler-corrupted Germany, but the author of The Manchurian Candidate has turned from dismayed humor to dismaying homily. Condon's current princess is an enormously wealthy, unbelievably beautiful Frenchwoman; though Jewish, she is married to a monocle-twirling Prussian general who cannot see the evil of Hitler until their adored child dies in a Jewish concentration camp. They retaliate by consigning the guilty SS officer to a grisly fate...