Word: holocaust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miraculous" national unity which brought this to pass is, said John Bennett, no accident: "History will reveal that it is the result of an inspiration springing from a man of destiny. The source of this inspiration, undeterred by terrific responsibilities imposed by the vastness of the holocaust, is in the heart and mind and genius of the President of these United States, our redoubtable Commander in Chief, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Professor Friedrich has developed both a defense and a masterly vindication of the democratic idea as a regime for civilized man. In the holocaust, his words are calculated to pump new life into a fighting democracy. In the days to come they may well serve as the basis for a happier world...
...keep propaganda out of the lecture room and tell the facts even if they shame our own nation. One of the purposes of such a streamlined program is to show that we as a nation are far from infallible, that, in large part, we are responsible for the present holocaust. "We have been just as blind as any of those broken peoples. We merely had better luck--the luck of geography and distance" is a typical blast coming from an up-to-date Army lecture...
...imaginations free play. Only message that caused momentary confusion was the one about the zoo. (No one knew quite what to do about loose wild animals.) A few bottlenecks were uncorked. Fire Chief Brennan wryly noted that it would have taken two complete fire departments to handle the reported holocaust. But by & large the try-out was a success. San Francisco was no longer a model of bumbling confusion. The city's air-raid precautions were beginning to tick...
...acted, which everyone should see in these tense days of readjustment to actual conditions of warfare. The scene is a fashionable girls' school in Switzerland; the time is August and early September, 1939. Six girls of varying nationalities: French, German, Polish, English, and American, are fast friends before the holocaust. But stranded in Lucerne, without proper guidance, they let national ties separate them into dissident cliques until, with the unknowing cruelty and stupidity of the young, they bring tragedy to Erna Schmidt, the young German girl...