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...campaign for the presidency, a largely ceremonial post, was the most bitter in Austria's post-World War II history. It forced Austrians to confront their part in the actions of Hitler's Germany during World War II and again raised the issue of anti-Semitism...
...unlikely that Adolph Hitler would havegiven up his plans to proceed," he said...
While the program's unmerciful skits have certainly turned plenty of heads in Britain, not everyone regards the product as a jolly good show. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who has been portrayed chatting with Adolf Hitler on immigration policies, saw the satire once and decided that she had seen enough. Many critics have complained that the show's cynicism is too easy and its script sophomoric. Almost everyone, however, concedes that the japery is nonpartisan. The House of Commons actually has a videotape of the show delivered each week...
Historical experience lends appeasement little credence. However it does not follow that blunt demonstrations of force invariably prove more persuasive. Allied resistance, when it came, did not cause Adolf Hitler to retreat. Years later, demonstrated U.S. resolve did not stem the tide in Southeast Asia. The decisiveness of conventional force rested on its material effect, not its deterrent quality...
Closer to our own time, Hitler and the Nazis had their own vision of a natural order. They set down in rigidly narrow terms a code which prescribed who would be considered "racially pure" and who were to be classified as "impure." As we all know, this led to the mass extermination of eastern European Jews, racial minorities, Jehovahs Witnesses and others who did not conform to the state's concept of justice. What is often forgotten, however, is that gays were similarly listed among the ranks of the "impure" and tens of thousands also perished in the gas chambers...