Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-eight U.S. clergymen and writers, mostly veteran pacifists who believe that the sins of the Führer should not be visited on his children, protested "obliteration" bombing of German cities. Said they: "Christian people should . . . examine themselves concerning their participation in this carnival of death." The signers included: Pastors Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Haynes Holmes; ex-Editor (the Nation) Oswald Garrison Villard...
...clock that night, a portentous hush settled on the German radio. Then came a flourish of trumpets, followed by the announcer's voice, vibrant with pride and triumph: "The Führer's Headquarters. The German High Command announces: A sub marine commanded by Senior Lieutenant von Billow has sunk in the middle of the North Atlantic the American aircraft carrier Ranger, employed to guard Atlantic convoy routes. The Führer has awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross [of the Iron Cross] to Lieutenant von Bülow, the 234th member...
...doctrine has not gone unnoticed in Mexico (or in other parts of Latin America). Many leading Mexicans will never forget or forgive the insulting treatment they have received in Texas. Said Mañana, a Mexican weekly: "The Nazis of Texas are not political partners of the Führer of Germany . . . but indeed they are slaves of the same prejudices and superstitions. Mexicans have become the victims of ignorant rabble who see in blond hair and blue eyes their pretended racial superiority." In Mexico City's Novedades, Cartoonist Garcia Cabral scornfully, resentfully showed Mexican Comic Character Cantinflas tolerating...
Heiden's new book is the Book-of-the-Month-Club's choice for February. It is a scrambled, 774-page history of Naziism and its principal characters from the earliest beginnings to the Purge of 1934, a biography of the Führer, a study of Germany since 1918 and a discourse on Germanic thought from Hegel to Hitler. The theme that binds it all together, if any thing does, may not seem to some readers like thoughtfully balanced sociology. Yet few readers will deny that Heiden has made an ingenious, readable, shocking case for his "pragmatical...
Chief Engineer. Hitler deliberately fostered chaos, deliberately postponed his own rise to power until chaos made him Der Führer. When he finally did reach for power, it was as the herald of a "mass drama that was breaking over the nation." Heiden believes that few chose to deny the drama's "grandeur," whatever its brutality. "No political conviction could banish from the world the eternal march rhythm of the Horst Wessel song." And the money poured in when success seemed likely-"the power of accomplished facts called forth reluctant admiration...