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...Capa's future in Germany ended with the election of Hitler in 1933. As a leftist refugee, and even worse as a Jew, his physical safety was in danger every minute he stayed in Germany. He soon found his way to Paris where he again faced dire poverty. As Whelan points out in detail, Capa was broke most of his life. The need to make money was always paramount in Capa's mind even if he ended up wasting it away in food and wine...
Eighty miles to the north, at a military hospital, an old pastor counsels a corporal. The clergyman announces that Germany must throw itself on the mercy of the victorious Allies. "Everything went black before my eyes," Adolf Hitler is to remember. "That night I resolved that, if I recovered my sight, I would enter politics...
COPS, Mark Baker - FINAL CUT, Steven Bach - HITLER: MEMOIRS OF A CONFIDANT, edited by Henry Ashby Turner Jr. - PICTURES FROM THE WATER TRADE, John David Morley - YEAGER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos
...would be arrested and that the police would use all necessary force to stop the demonstration. Even more than the conciliatory Bishop Tutu, Boesak has angered the government with his combative oratory, his calls for divestiture and his references to the ruling Afrikaners as the "spiritual children of Adolf Hitler"--a very sensitive point, since many Afrikaners supported Nazi Germany in World War II. Vowing to proceed with the demonstration, Boesak insisted last week, "They will try to frighten us with the possibility of unleashing the enormous force of the government and the violence we have seen before...
Kremlin watchers caution, however, that underneath their new veneer, most Soviet bureaucrats are the same old dogmatic apparatchiks. Propaganda within the U.S.S.R. is just as shrill and paranoid as ever. Reagan is sometimes & likened to Hitler by news organs. One wall poster currently displayed in Moscow shows a grim image of a U.S. monster threatening to rain down bombs from outer space. Overseas, disinformation remains a favorite tactic; the Kremlin rarely overlooks an opportunity to plant a false rumor. While grieving last week over the death of Samantha Smith, the American girl who visited the U.S.S.R. on a peace mission...