Word: hrer
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...swaggering, Austrian-born SS Hauptsturmführer (captain), Stangl was captured by American troops in 1945 and turned over to Austrian authorities for trial. He escaped in 1947, made his way to Syria and finally, in 1951, to Brazil. By that time, he had attained most-wanted status in the records of the Jewish Documentation Center, a Vienna-based organization headed by Simon Wiesenthal and dedicated to tracking down Nazi war criminals. In 1967, Stangl was finally extradited. "If I had done nothing else except catch this man," said Wiesenthal, who was in the Düsseldorf courtroom last week...
...both East and West Germany, the egomaniacal Führer has become something of a nonperson. The East Germans rather self-righteously disclaim any role or responsibility for the Nazi years: after all, they are Communists, and Hitler was the rotten fruit of a decaying capitalist system. For the West Germans, coming to terms with that era is more difficult...
Grass is much given to parody. Hitler's military jargon, for instance, is spoofed in delusive GHQ commands sent out to recapture the Führer's lost German shepherd, Prinz, as the Third Reich crumbles. Sample: "On the JüterbogTorgau line, projected antitank trenches are replaced by Führerdogtraptrenches." Often the bristliest bits in Grass's prose derive from what critics refer to as "thing magic" (Dingmagie), those long inventories of physical objects that Grass compiles to retrieve German from abstraction and the swarms of technical terms he uses, mostly derived from...
Ever since he was captured by the British 28 years ago, Nazi Germany's onetime Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess has steadfastly refused to see his wife and son. It was beneath the dignity of a high official, he explained, to permit his family to see him in prison. Now 75 and suffering from a duodenal ulcer, Hess was transferred in November from Berlin's Spandau prison to a British military hospital. There, in a room with guards but no bars, Hess last week finally was reunited with his wife Use, who runs a tiny...