Word: hrers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone are the long, fawning close-ups of the Führer, gone the Wagnerian surges on the sound track to underline every German victory. Gone is any suggestion that the Germans (even hard-working Leni) had anything to do with the film; the distributors are taking no chances with U.S. public opinion. By shrewd editing, a 260-minute heil to German athletic prowess has been reduced to a 92-minute rah-rah for the All-American...
...cherished a secret pride in his ability to handle the Führer. On his visits, he carried along maps and architectural plans in which Hitler found a childish delight. Nothing that happened in Germany was beyond or beneath Lammers' passion for detail. The prosecution last week produced a letter he had written in 1941 to Germany's Minister of Justice: "The enclosed newspaper clipping about the conviction of the Jew Marcus Luftgas to a prison sentence of two and one-half years [for the hoarding of eggs] has been submitted to the Führer...
...Propagate Germans. In 1929, 27-year-old Gertrud ScholtzKlink joined the Nazi movement. Five years later, Hitler appointed her Leader of German Women. She told German women: "We do everything regularly and jointly in accordance with the Führer's will. We obey unconditionally." She sent them to factories and farms, relentlessly pursued the Nazi race creed. "We bring the fruits of our motherhood to the Führer," she said, "and say to him, 'It is the best that we have. Therefore it belongs...
...while Hitler drilled his bullies, Ernst Juenger greased their path to power with his doctrine of total nihilism. Rejecting both traditional Christian and humanist values, he expressed the kind of diseased fascination with violence that led Germany's rootless youth into the Führer's ranks. "All Freedom, all Greatness, all Culture," he wrote, "are only maintained and spread aloft by wars...
Fritz Kuhn was one German that Americans knew well. They remembered pictures of him as the strutting führer of the German-American Bund, of his Madison Square Garden meetings, where the Stars & Stripes and the swastika were bracketed, of his arrest and deportation. One day last week Fritz made news again, but there was nobody around for pictures. He escaped from the Dachau internment camp where he had been awaiting a denazification trial. At week's end, police were still looking...