Word: hitlers
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...profoundly influenced the course of his country; in Plettenberg, West Germany. From 1929 to 1933, he provided legal and theoretical justifications for the Hindenburg government's dictatorial emergency decree system. Schmitt warned against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal at Nuremberg and later largely kept his vow to retreat "into the security of silence...
...rubs his nose every 30 seconds may be dissembling, or he may simply be displaying a lifelong nervous habit. Diplomats, natural performers and pathological liars are often impossible to read. Says Ekman: "We live in a probabilistic world. You're only going to make an estimate." (Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler, Ekman believes, was good at lying because of his ability to hide his emotions. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, duped by Hitler at Munich in 1938, once wrote, "Here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word...
...said nothing. Indifference . . . it is something I know about." His grieving voice, marked with the intonations of the exile, trails off. "Silence is the worst thing, worse than mere hate. If we ignore the suffering, our true literary prophecy will not be The Trial or The Stranger but Hitler's Mein Kampf. This is what I fight against...
Last week about 350 American and German veterans and former Belgian resistance fighters gathered at the site to mark the 40th anniversary of an action that may have shortened the war by disrupting Hitler's defenses. Said retired Lieut. Colonel Leonard Engeman, 78, who led the U.S. forces that captured the bridge: "We have not come back to gloat, but to commemorate a moment that was rather special, and to make clear that never again must we ever go to war against one another...
Written by Hitchcock in the '40s, Rope's use of Rupert's superman ideology makes the play a powerful parallel to Hitler's frighteningly effective use of racist and anti-Semitic propaganda. In both case, immature minds grasped on perverse ideologies, which fueled by intense emotional needs, culminated in disaster...