Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your attention," says TIME critic R.Z. Sheppard. "It's friendly but still has teeth." The author populates "Beach Music" (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) with memorable characters, but unfortunately burdens them with the entire bloody history of the 20th century. "Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy," says Sheppard, and so is some of Conroy's rhetoric. The Pat Conroy who wrote "The Water Is Wide" and "The Great Santini" is conspicuously absent here, leaving "Beach Music" as nothing more than what is certain to be this summer's best-selling snack.Previous TIME DailyCampaign...
When I was seven years old, I fled from a town near Prague with my mother, sisters and brothers. My eldest brother, just 15, was left behind to be a soldier in Hitler's army, like my father. During our escape to the West, I was almost left behind during a rest stop. I had to run to catch the truck. On our 14-day journey to Cologne, a black American soldier gave us a bar of chocolate; it was sweeter than anything I have ever had in my life. My father and brother were captured by the Soviets...
...Each year we all say, "Lest we forget," but I fear we have already forgotten. You may call me paranoid to think that farmers from a small American town could lead to such inhumanity as the Oklahoma bombing, but who would have thought a lowly, unsuccessful painter like Adolf Hitler could do what...
This country's militias and other extremist right-wing groups are more of a threat to democracy than Russia or China ever was. Listening to members of these organizations reminds me of Germany at the start of Hitler's rise to power. People who belong to such extremist groups would have been jailed if they were in any country...
...ARMY Fifty years and 27 million lives after the defeat of Hitler, the West says "Thanks...