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...while those left behind debated the United States' role in the war and its policy toward Great Britain. "People spent a lot of time in bull sessions talking about intervention," says Whiteside. "It affected us so intimately." He says the majority of students favored doing everything necessary to defeat Hitler and that most would endorse all aid short...
Bloch agrees. "The pace was slower. Crime wasn't as rampant. There was relatively little racism that I noticed. What there was was a deep hatred of what Germany and Hitler were doing and what it was all about...
During the 1930s, a steady stream of composers and performers fled Nazi Germany in the wake of Hitler's Kulturkampf. Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Arnold Schoenberg, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer and other purveyors of "degenerate art" found a safe haven in the U.S. Gentile and Jew alike, they contributed immeasurably to the development of music in America. But what of those not so lucky as to escape? What talents were consigned to the flames of the Holocaust? The fascinating and moving new CD Silenced Voices offers poignant witness to what was -- and what might have been...
FIFTY YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR II, THE THIRD REICH'S CRACK troops are cashing in. Many Czechs, Poles and other East Europeans served in Hitler's SS but hid their past after the end of World War II for fear of retribution from ruling communist governments. Now that communism is fading, SS veterans are going public to collect pensions from the German government. Germany's social security system has awarded $190-a-month payments (a small fortune in the Baltics) to more than 250 disabled SS veterans in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Says Latvian SS veteran and pension receiver Boris...
...WILL AIR A SPECIAL ON THE KGB ALLEGING that YURI ANDROPOV, when he was the Soviet spy chief, knew where the body of Adolf Hitler was buried. Excerpts from a 1970 Andropov memo: "In Feb. 1946 in the city of Magdeburg ((G.D.R.)) . . . the bodies of Hitler, Eva Braun, Goebbels, his wife and children were buried . . . I would consider it expedient to remove the remains and destroy them by cremation...