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...That would be unendurable. So they devise a plan--sort of a mutual assured destruction--and it might have worked until an "airborne toxic event" forced them to evacuate their small college town with their family, tearing Jack away from his cherished position as chairman of the "Department of Hitler Studies" at the local university...
...disastrous attempt to bury the hatchet, Reagan had initially refused to visit Holocaust sites during his visit to Germany for the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II. Instead, he decided to visit a German war cemetery where some of Adolf Hitler's SS troops are buried...
...profoundly influenced the course of his country; in Plettenberg, West Germany. From 1929 to 1933, he provided legal and theoretical justifications for the Hindenburg government's dictatorial emergency decree system. Schmitt warned against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal at Nuremberg and later largely kept his vow to retreat "into the security of silence...
...rubs his nose every 30 seconds may be dissembling, or he may simply be displaying a lifelong nervous habit. Diplomats, natural performers and pathological liars are often impossible to read. Says Ekman: "We live in a probabilistic world. You're only going to make an estimate." (Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler, Ekman believes, was good at lying because of his ability to hide his emotions. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, duped by Hitler at Munich in 1938, once wrote, "Here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word...
Last week about 350 American and German veterans and former Belgian resistance fighters gathered at the site to mark the 40th anniversary of an action that may have shortened the war by disrupting Hitler's defenses. Said retired Lieut. Colonel Leonard Engeman, 78, who led the U.S. forces that captured the bridge: "We have not come back to gloat, but to commemorate a moment that was rather special, and to make clear that never again must we ever go to war against one another...