Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1941, when Hitler's troops stood poised across the English Channel from Britain, American churchmen had mixed feelings about U.S. entry into the war. One of the most outspoken advocates of the Allied cause was Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, a onetime pacifist who had come to see that stance as "utopianism" in the face of Nazism's threat to Western civilization. With a group of like-minded thinkers, Niebuhr founded a biweekly journal of Christian opinion to oppose the prevailing pacifism of church leaders and to relate the Gospel message to problems of war and peace...
...particular danger posed by Hitler was banished to the history books, but Niebuhr's Christianity and Crisis found enough troubling issues to keep right on publishing. This week the magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary by sponsoring a colloquium on mankind's present crisis and a banquet at which the main speaker will be Longtime Reader Hubert Humphrey...
Christian Realism. Ironically, the journal that once condemned Hitler now criticizes the U.S. in its confrontation with Asian Communism. Niebuhr and Bennett say that a nation at times has a "moral obligation" to check power with power, but they advocate a negotiated end to the fighting in Viet Nam, a position that some critics feel is surprisingly akin to the antiwar view the magazine opposed in 1941. "We hope we are still Christian realists," Bennett writes in the anniversary issue, "and that we are as 'realistic' in emphasizing the limited relevance of American military power today...
...Eichmann demonstrated the banality of evil, Keitel proved its myopia. Actually, the chief of Hitler's high command was neither a Prussian nor a very convincing "war criminal." Keitel was a frustrated farmer who, on his rare wartime leaves, loved nothing more than to muck about his Brunswick estate of Helmscherode, buying new farm implements or hunting roebuck and wild boar. Almost coincidentally, he signed his name to Hitler's orders decreeing the deaths of millions. As another Nazi general wrote of Keitel later, "He was certainly not wicked au fond, as one occasionally reads...
Keitel's memoirs, written at Nürnberg during his trial and completed just before his execution, reveal a mind that was both humorless and unimaginative; he did, however, have a vast capacity for administrative drudgery-and all were qualities that Hitler recognized as essentials in a subordinate if his own plans were to work. Keitel not only carried out the Führer's orders with diligence, but did not even permit himself-much less his own subordinates-to question their morality. The infamous Nacht und Nebel order of 1941, under which Resistance suspects from France...