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Died. Baldur von Schirach, 67, arrogant, monomaniacal leader of Hitler's youth movement in the 1930s; in Krov, West Germany. Son of a German aristocrat and an American mother, Von Schirach declared that "the lives of all German youths belong solely to Adolf Hitler," and undertook to train his charges ("physically, spiritually and morally") to follow the Führer unquestioningly. After the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Hitler farmed him out to be Gauleiter (district leader) of Vienna, where he remained till war's end. At Nuremberg in 1946, Von Schirach was convicted of complicity in the murder...
Perhaps the most famous behavioral analysis was the Hitler study done by Dr. Walter Langer, William's brother, for the U.S. Government during World War II. Declassified in 1972 and published as The Mind of Adolph Hitler, Langer's work proved uncannily accurate; he not only predicted Hitler's suicide, but also that "each defeat will shake his confidence and ... he will probably try to compensate for his vulnerability by stressing his brutality." In fact, Hitler began ordering mass slaughters of the Jews as his military position crumbled. But even Langer calls psychiatric profiles "90% guesswork...
...side as well, not a little of it inflicted directly on the Palestinians by Zionism. And above all I know that human suffering cannot be quantified, that no side or group can be said to have suffered more than any other group. Yes, six million Jews were murdered by Hitler, but he also murdered as many Russians, and Stalin twice that. Who can say which people suffered more. You may want to talk in percentages--but what kind of perverse scale would that...
...Popular Front government been elected, bringing to power a coalition of Communists, Socialists, and other elements of the Left, than Franco started an army revolt originating in northern Africa and quickly extended throughout Spain. While Franco's Nationalist troops were substantially reinforced by elite troops sent from Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, the Loyalists were isolated by the stubborn neutrality of the United States and the European democracies. Their only external aid was from those volunteers throughout the world who left their comfortable homes to defend the nascent republic against the encroaching wave of European fascism...
...shocking to realize that this squat, mustachioed little man we see parading on the screen before his elite troops is the selfsame man who for 35 years has ruled the Spanish people with an oppressive iron hand. Decades after the fall of Mussolini and the demise of Hitler, Franco maintains a reign of terror in Madrid and Barcelona, throughout Aragon and Castile, over the sons and daughters of the Loyalist soldiers who lay buried in unmarked graves in the Spanish countryside...