Word: hitlers
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Hoffmann said he has spent his academic tenure coming to terms with “the most traumatic period of my life,” when he and his mother escaped Austria for France, where they saw Hitler gradually take power. Forced to flee Paris, he said they “never knew whether we’d be alive...
...Beyond his journalistic facility, Cooke seemed to have a diviner's rod that led him toward powerful men and big stories. In 1931, on vacation in Munich, he stumbled onto a street speech by a local spellbinder: Adolf Hitler, two years before the Third Reich came to power. In 1936 Cooke wandered into an alley during Harvard's tricentennial celebration and saw two Secret Service men lean into a limo and lift out the polio-stricken "Franklin Roosevelt, inert as a sack of potatoes." In 1968 he was at the Ambassador Hotel when Robert Kennedy was shot, and filed...
Broun, Paul •Obama is compared to Hitler - yes, HITLER...
...frightening night. Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass," saw the ruling Nazi party unleash bands of thugs on Jewish communities throughout Germany and Austria, ostensibly to avenge an attack on a German diplomat in Paris by a young German Jew whose family had been forced to flee Hitler's regime. By dawn on Nov. 10, 92 Jews lay dead, among the 400 beaten, shot or driven to suicide by the abuse. Some 267 synagogues had been torched and hundreds of Jewish businesses destroyed, and 30,000 Jews had been rounded up and dispatched to concentration camps. It was, most historians...
...Although Silverman calls Obama’s foreign policy “more stabilizing” for Israel, this opinion fails to convey the magnitude of what is at stake. National Review columnist Anne Bayefsky best articulates this viewpoint, writing that “since the time of Hitler, civilization has never been so close to the brink of total catastrophe” in reference to a possible nuclear attack by Iran on Israel, among other threats to geopolitical stability. For children of Holocaust survivors, McCain’s more aggressive Iran policy, including a refusal to negotiate with Iran...