Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...analyze their output. NBC's Robert MacNeil, anxious to help fill in the empty minutes, dredged up the results of preelection polls to make a far-out analogy between California's New Leftists who voted for Reagan and the German Leftists of the 1930s who voted for Hitler on the theory that he would soon collapse. In a more jocular vein, MacNeil explained that Democrat George Mahoney had lost in his bid to become Maryland's Governor because such traditional Maryland Democratic voters as David Brinkley had turned against their party...
...Czech farm hand (he was born Jan Ludwig Hoch), Maxwell left school at ten, left his family's one-room Carpathian mountain home at 16 to join the underground fighting Hitler. Later he made his way to Britain, joined the British army as a private, left as a captain. With the profits of some shrewd postwar trading in German scientific manuscripts, he bought Pergamon in 1951 for $36,400, cajoled experts from all over the world into writing scientific tomes for him. Fluent in nine languages including Russian, he won a virtual corner on rights to Soviet scientific works...
...more becoming a vehicle by which serious writers explore the wretched state of man and the cruelty of the human heart. In this bitter, brilliantly drawn book, Abraham Rothberg, historian, journalist and teacher, adopts an espionage mission as the framework for probing the holocaust that enveloped European Jewry after Hitler's rise to power...
Died. General Dietrich von Choltitz, 71, a stubby, impassive Junker who was known as the "smasher of cities" for leading blitzkriegs against Rotterdam and Sevastopol, became military chief of Paris in 1944, and was commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"-the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this...
Commendably, the book never tries to glamorize the war. The pictures of Hiroshima, the faces of Hitler and Goebbels, the stacks of dead at the Gusen concentration camp in Austria, are reminder enough that it was a war in which compassion and decency lay among the victims...