Word: hitlers
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...Adolf Hitler is the obvious choice for the single individual who had the most profound impact on the events of the past 100 years. His acts had a dramatic impact on the entire world. Everything from the Holocaust, the cold war, the invention and ultimate use of atomic weapons can be traced back to Hitler. TED FLORENCE North York...
...been the century in which the voices of ordinary people were widely heard for the first time, the century of mass suffrage but also the century of mass suffering. Ordinary people died in the trenches, in a deadly influenza epidemic, went hungry in the Great Depression, brought Adolf Hitler to power and died in the death camps. The Person of the Century should be the common man, the unsung hero who encompasses all our strivings and failings, our successes and disasters, our greatness and pettiness. He is us. ALBERT GOMPERTS Antwerp...
Franklin Roosevelt was Hitler's most feared and hated enemy. Contemporary Jews knew they never had a better friend or a more sympathetic President than F.D.R. He never lost the essential focus: Hitler had to be destroyed, his armies had to surrender unconditionally. Only then could the genocide be stopped and liberation secured. It was Hitler and his Nazi thugs who directed the Holocaust. It was the America Roosevelt led that destroyed them. As Simon Wiesenthal wrote, "At the time I was a prisoner in Mauthausen, my last concentration camp, the name Franklin Roosevelt was the hope for freedom...
...able to watch men land on the moon. Unfortunately, it was also a century where evil challenged good with two world wars, constant conflicts and the killing of innocent people. An evildoer must be favored for selection as the Person of this Century. It boils down to either Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. FINBARR SLATTERY Killarney, Ireland...
...reason that led to Hitler's Romantic philosophy of "blood and fatherland." It's not reason that feeds myriad contending nationalisms. It's not reason that justifies the visceral greed of the world's exploiters. It's not reason that leads a people to idolize and deify dictators...