Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death of the Adversary, by Hans Keilson. In this dark novel, the author, a German Jew, tries with some success to unthread the fabric of hate: Why did the Germans, Jew and Gentile, acquiesce so passively in Hitler's crime of Jewish extermination...
...beings") to spot news. "I have scarcely ever had a scoop in my life," he writes, "and it seemed to me, then as now, abysmally silly to break a neck by beating the opposition by a few seconds on a story." Gunther decided that the tumultuous personalities of Europe-Hitler, Kemal Ataturk, Léon Blum-deserved a full-length book. He did some legwork in Europe, grilled correspondents, composed and sent out a questionnaire he has used ever since ("What is the subject's attitude toward religion, sex, money? His pet hates, pet loves? His danger of assassination...
...Baltimore Sun (1924-48) and the Saturday Evening Post (1949-57), whose portfolio of some 8.000 drawings included three that won him Pulitzer prizes (1931, '34, '40); after a long illness; in Manhattan. Duffy insisted that the "best cartoons are against something," caricatured the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler and Communism with such blunt and angry lines that one critic wrote, "If the pen is mightier than the sword, then Duffy's grease pencil is more effective than a well-aimed brick...
Since Adolf Hitler, an outpouring of writing has tried to explain the violence that human beings do to one another. Nagging questions persist: Why did so many acquiesce in Hitler's evil? Why did so many Jews go quietly to their deaths when they had a good chance of resisting? Fiction, rather than scholarship, has supplied the shrewder answers. Perhaps the profoundest explanation to date comes from the pen of a Jewish writer driven from Germany in 1936 and now living in Holland. Hans Keilson's novel subtly and eloquently probes the ambivalent relation of victim with aggressor...
Keilson traces the growth of hatred in his leading character as other writers trace love or self-knowledge. When a small child, the nameless hero gets his first inkling that he has an enemy. In hushed voices, his parents discuss a party leader called B., a thinly disguised Hitler who is rising to power by attacking a minority...