Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Imagine Franklin Roosevelt going on nationwide radio hook-up . . . and saying the following three months after Pearl Harbor: 'My fellow Americans, Hitler's armies are smashing at the gates of Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad. Russia will be knocked out of the war in the course of the next six to eight weeks . . . The Japanese have just destroyed the heart of our fleet at Pearl Harbor and we see no way to stop them...
Beginning his West European swing on a combative note, Ortega emerged from a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez to describe President Reagan as "a fascist, like Hitler, who wants to turn Nicaragua into a giant concentration camp." Gonzalez was visibly uncomfortable. While cautioning that the U.S. trade embargo could force Nicaragua "to seek aid and support from the other side," meaning the Soviet Union, Gonzalez made no promises about increasing Spanish-Nicaraguan trade...
...coup in August 1983. Sankara has cut civil servants' wages and raised taxes. One problem is that his regime's inflammatory rhetoric keeps bubbling to the surface, making some countries hesitant to offer economic aid. Last month, for example, a government-run newspaper compared President Reagan to Hitler, prompting the U.S. to cut back its commitment to two development projects in forestry and agriculture. France, which in 1984 contributed $43 million at current exchange rates, remains the country's main source...
...Cooke's compatriots are so self-critical. Indeed, Crapanzano begins his study by explaining the rift within the white community, which separates the Afrikaners from their neighbors of English descent. So profound is this mutual resentment that many Afrikaners championed Hitler during World War II rather than support what they considered a British cause. Conversely, some English speakers will drive miles out of their way rather than patronize an Afrikaner store...
...furthest advances of the culture, yet the Third Reich profoundly perverted the entire heritage of Western achievement. It was as if Goethe had taken to eating human flesh. The scientific method, perfected over centuries, fell into the hands of Dr. Mengele and the engineers of the ovens. Hitler was not alone responsible. More than a few Germans enthusiastically followed him, saluted him and died for him. They seized the accumulated trust of 3,000 years and distilled it into unimaginable evil. They sought to extinguish not only Jews and gypsies and the rest, but all the lights of civilization. That...