Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woodcutter bending over a power saw deep in the dark North German forest of Sachsenwald. "Hands up!" shouted an officer, and the surprised lumberjack allowed himself to be handcuffed without resistance. Thus the law finally caught up with former SS Sturmbannführer Richard Baer, 49, last commandant of Hitler's infamous Auschwitz extermination camp...
...RIGHT, JACK. Peter Sellers is a caution as a tuppenny Hitler in this hilarious travesty on labor-management relations in the "farewell state...
...good will. But as its author says when speaking of his Nazi non-hero: "As so often happens, pen and mind tell a different story." Hans Winterschild, a Nazi infantry officer, is the loser of the title, and so, by reasonable extension, is Germany. But what if Hans and Hitler had been the winners? There are times when The Loser all but implies that the Allies would have been proved wrong, or so a cynic could argue. Hans is a case-history figure, a dedicated Nazi who never had to contend with conscience. When he is ordered to destroy...
...LAST OF THE JUST, by André Schwarz-Bart. Through one family, a bitter, largely self-taught first novelist follows the unrelenting horror of anti-Semitism from medieval England to Hitler's Germany. The author's grim tale belies his dictum: "To be a Jew is impossible...
...RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH, by William L. Shirer. The most successful effort yet to get into one volume the grisly and disheartening history of Naziism, from the birth of its creator to his suicide in a Berlin bunker. In Hitler, argues Shirer with a wealth of supporting evidence, the German people got just what they wanted...