Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first to identify the owners of the bushy upper lips in TIME, April 21? My guesses (from top to bottom): Mikoyan, Stalin, Hitler, Niven, Cantinflas...
...Adolf Hitler, like most nightmares, is a pleasure to forget. Nevertheless, the world in 1961 has apparently gained what might be called an anesthetic distance from the monstrous paperhanger, and has suddenly decided to re-examine the great plague he personified. The Eichmann trial is making headlines, and William L. Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has been steadily topping the bestseller list. Now a Swedish Jew named Erwin Leiser has compiled from captured German film-newsreels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films, secret police footage-this calm, fair, objective and appalling picture history of Hitlerism...
...silly-sickening newsreel of Reichs-kanzler Hitler at his first Cabinet meeting, bowing obsequiously to Von Papen, making cheesy smiles and cute little wriggles of politeness, playing Alphonse to Göring's Gaston over who sits in what chair and, in general, looking like a whey-faced, flabby postal clerk ill at ease in the company of his betters...
...visible distress at the prospect of another raking up of Nazi atrocities. Sighed Konrad Adenauer: "There's nothing to do but wait and see-and try to live through it." West Berlin's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, who has himself been accused of anti-Semitism during the Hitler era-declared in a radio address: "The whole world will say, 'That is the way Germans are.' We will not be able to answer, It was only a handful of Germans who in their insanity forgot all the commandments of God.' The German people cannot exonerate themselves...
...pursuits-war.* German soldiers used to grow mustaches when they found their Kraft ebbing. British soldiers during the Crimean War gained a fearsome respect for their fearsomely foliaged Turkish allies, and many of those who survived proudly bore a bristle back home. Such pubigerous leaders as Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Stalin, De Gaulle and Chiang Kai-shek maintained the military tradition of the brush-style upper...