Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While visiting Berlin in 1934 as an official of the National Municipal League, Howard Jones pointedly refrained from saluting the Nazi swastika. Threatened by a fist-shaking Storm Trooper, he protested angrily to Adolf Hitler's German government, promptly received a full apology...
...years since Charles II organized the Post Office. Britain's blue uniformed postmen have made their appointed rounds despite highwaymen, Hitler's bombs, and a maze of pettifogging postal regulations that run into several thousand pages of fine type. Last week, by the trick of working strictly according to the rule book, British postal workers who want higher pay came close to strangling the Royal Mail in red tape...
...book's English publication last spring precipitated a celebrated scholarly duel between Taylor and fellow Oxford historian and longtime rival, Hugh Trevor-Roper (The Last Days of Hitler), who attacked Taylor for "perversion of evidence" and "irresponsible antics...
Theatrical Destruction. With scholarly detachment, Taylor states the case for appeasing Hitler and for resisting him, but his sympathies obviously lie with the appeasers. Germany, he argues, had a right as a great power to reoccupy the Rhineland in 1936, even though Winston Churchill, among others, felt that Hitler could have been easily stopped and probably toppled from power. At Munich, writes Taylor, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain saved the peace and served the principle of self-determination, i.e., by handing a slice of Czechoslovakia to Germany because a lot of Germans lived there. Writes Taylor: "It was a triumph...
Taylor insists that Hitler was no fanatic. "Hitler was a rational, though no doubt a wicked statesman," writes Taylor primly. "His object was the steady expansion of German power, not a theatrical display of glory." This is an odd assessment of a man who wallowed in the theatrical, whether haranguing the chanting mobs under the searchlights at Nürnberg or accepting the total destruction of Germany as a suitable Götterdämmerung to accompany his own demise. His nationalism, far from being the common variety, was the most virulent racism the world has ever known...