Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undated document identifies an account held for Hitler in Switzerland for royalties from Mein Kampf...
...undated paper cites the 300,000-franc Swiss account of Hitler's tailor...
...national soul searching in which their image as a proud neutral country--founder of the Red Cross, defender of democratic values, oasis of peace and multiethnic harmony--is being challenged by a more sinister image: that of a self-centered mercantile nation that prospered from its dealings with Hitler, showed little sympathy for his victims and emerged unscathed from a conflict that devastated its neighbors...
...Secretary of State, when the lights are brightest, Albright is the first to say that, yes, it's because she is a woman, but, she adds, it's also because of her story. She wears her biography like a brooch, a shiny tale of a refugee--first from Hitler, then Stalin--who fell in love with the country that saved her and fulfilled its promise of unlimited promise. But she has had reason to suspect for some years now that even she didn't know the whole story. And if she is distracted tonight, it may be because the story...
...mind-set is Munich," Albright has often explained. "Most of my generation's was Vietnam." Albright's orientation is used to explain her willingness to confront bullies with force. But the Munich Conference in 1938 that gave Hitler the green light to annex one-third of Czechoslovakia carried many lessons beyond the dangers of appeasement, and one was surely that it is never wise to play from a position of weakness. Albright knew early on that you can't do a thing in foreign policy without power. So she didn't waste any time "establishing her presence," as an observer...