Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book The Holocaust in American Life, the century's signature cataclysm has been regularly applied in places as diverse as Iraq, Rwanda and Bosnia, to mixed effect. Some may argue that the Holocaust talk regarding Kosovo was justified, rallying support for a long bombing campaign. Now that this particular Hitler is at the bargaining table, however, the rhetoric, and its harsh implications, will most likely be quietly dropped as inconvenient...
...Adolf Hitler has long been established as the 20th century's Great Satan, the base line of evil; Joseph Stalin, equally monstrous by most objective measures, comes in a distant second--maybe even third behind Pol Pot. One big difference was World War II: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and so Stalin's enormities were courteously minimized in the wartime alliance against Hitler, when the Russian leader became pipe-smoking "Uncle Joe." After that, the demonology never entirely caught up with...
Historians have applied ingenious psychoanalysis to Hitler. Now, in The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin (Counterpoint; 261 pages; $25), the author and translator Richard Lourie has found a grimly brilliant form in which to dramatize Stalin and his horrors...
They came in three installments, in the summer and fall of 1945 and the spring of 1946, to a campus that still lodged Navy officers in Eliot House. And they left as the Class of '52 filled the Yard with first-years too young to remember the rise of Hitler clearly...
...time went by, memories of Hitler's Germany,the atomic bomb and wartime rationing faded frommemory. The '49ers studied, played House footballand attended dances. With the Class of 1949,Harvard put WWII firmly in the past.Harvard YearbookPEACE IN OUR TIME:An English Ainstructor takes his class outside to enjoy thebalmy weather in the final weeks of the 1949spring semester...