Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passionate vindications of his use of rubbish in collages. As his movement flourished, he built a Merzbau in Hannover, where disciples could touch a rag that Schwitters asserted was Goethe's stocking, and a bottle of yellow liquid that he called the "urine of the Master." When Adolf Hitler came along, Schwitters' day in Germany was over. The Führer did not approve. In 1935 Schwitters fled Germany-first to Norway, then to England, where he died...
...Friday, day of fasting and penitence, some 2,000 young Germans made an elevenmile pilgrimage to the onetime concentration camp at Dachau, where Munich's Bishop Johannes Neuhaeusler, a former inmate, dedicated a chapel to Christ's agony (a jarring note was the appearance of Hitler's financial wizard, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who did a brief spell in Dachau himself...
...Hundreds) spoofing Gentle Alec's unexpected loss of the family's "safe" Lanarkshire seat in the 1945 Labor landslide election. In his 31 years in politics, Home served as Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary (accompanying Chamberlain to Munich in 1938 and riding with him behind Hitler and Mussolini through cheering Nazi crowds). After succeeding to the earldom in 1951 and taking his seat in the House of Lords he served as Scottish Secretary and later as Commonwealth Secretary and leader of the House of Lords...
Died. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, ' 74, unrepentant Nazi, one of Hitler's top military strategists and his last commander in chief in the West; of heart disease; in Bad Nauheim, Germany. A career soldier and World War I pilot, Kesselring developed the combined ground-air attack strategy that was the key to early Nazi victories, at war's start commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa and took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow retreat up the boot of Italy. Condemned to die by the British...
Just Like Hitler. Khrushchev's portable platform was a scraggly, 15-bus convoy that wound through the peaceful Austrian countryside. For a starter, at the old Mauthausen concentration camp where 123,000 prisoners died, Khrushchev denounced German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for "Hitler" policies and later elaborated on the theme: "Hitler opened his mouth and wanted to swallow everybody. Adenauer licks his lips, he gets angry, but he cannot move from the spot. Should he attempt to touch the Socialist countries, he will be smashed immediately on the spot. Immediately...