Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. Historian-Journalist Ryan recounts the fall of Hitler's capital and details the Allied blunders that gave Stalin Berlin...
...private tycoons, the Warburg family has bred many of its own philanthropists, scientists and scholars. In 20th century Germany, members of the family or their partners were friends to Kaiser Wilhelm, represented their country at Versailles (and refused to sign the treaty), sat on 100 corporate boards. After Hitler came in, the Warburgs-being Jews -were forced out. Now, however, the resilient Warburgs are returning with a rush...
Died. Sepp Dietrich, 73, prewar head of Hitler's SS bodyguard and general in command of the Sixth Panzer Army at the Battle of the Bulge, who on Dec. 17, 1944, ordered the massacre of 86 U.S. prisoners in Malmédy, Belgium; of a heart attack; near Stuttgart...
...author's growing reputation as a satirist. Vonnegut's targets are institutional: religion (Cat's Cradle), science and technology (Player Piano), philanthropy (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine). Here the target appears to be patriotism. From Nazi Germany, Howard W. Campbell Jr. broadcasts Hitler's propaganda to the West. Even his wife does not know that he is a U.S. counter-intelligence agent and that he is transmitting valuable military information. But after the war, the U.S. military establishment disowns him. After keeping this secret for 15 cataleptic years, Howard hardly believes...
...already followed up with an even newer vogue: plastic copies of the Wehrmacht iron helmet. Says he: "They really reach into a kid's deepest emotions." Beyond that he sees a big potential market for SS emblems and Nazi swastikas. "You know," he says expansively, "that Hitler did a helluva public relations...