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Refugees from Hitler who arrived in American in the late 30's and early 40's used to say that they discovered it was easy to get around without knowing English. The only two words you had to be able to say were Joe DiMaggio. A number of ballplayers have hit for higher average, many have exceeded his home run total, a few have even had better arms, according to sprotswriters who claim to be able to quantify an immeasurable like throwing a runner out, under pressure, from deep center. But no other athlete, in fact pretty much...
...battle scenes and of concentration camps, and dates of events, were familiar to everyone with whom I discussed the period. Certainly the Communist parties have done their bit for rewriting history, so that reading a magazine article one might think that England and the United States were allied with Hitler. But for those who lived through it, only so much can be distorted. In a very real way the past is an important part of the present. And somehow this is much more appealing than desire to bury the past and look toward the future in, say, West Germany, where...
...often twisting policies to the British through the 1930s, forging friendly relations but no alliances with Lord Halifax and Winston Churchill. Under a cloud after the Nazi-Soviet pact and Stalin's 1939 invasion of Finland, he rebounded to become one of London's social lions when Hitler attacked Russia in 1941. A superb p.r. man, Maisky donated the Soviet embassy's iron railing to Britain's wartime scrap drive and was once serenaded with the Internationale by British armament workers. Returning in 1943 to serve as Stalin's Deputy Foreign Minister, Maisky attended...
...Wagner family. "I can't put a muzzle on my mother, of course," said Wolfgang Wagner, director of the annual Bayreuth festival that celebrates his grandfather's music. Nonetheless, this year the embarrassed Wolfgang has banned Winni from setting foot in the festival house, which Hitler attended regularly even at the height of World...
...victim can be made to feel culpable, any crime is possible. Like millions of other historical mourners of every persuasion, Arlen once preferred to ignore his roots, at exorbitant cost. For silence can be a plague, and the most chilling question in the book remains the one that Hitler asked two generations ago: "Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians...