Word: hrers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge statuary was to decorate the squares and public buildings of the city that Hitler was to make the "thousand-year capital" of the Reich. To house Thorak's enormous work in preparation, some of it six stories high and weighing 1,000 tons, the Führer built him a studio as high and wide as a Zeppelin hangar. When the job proved to be insecure, Sculptor Thorak retired to semiobscurity in Bavaria...
Many of FDJ members are rowdy, opportunist youths, like Hans Gossen, FDJ leader in Saxony. As a Hitler Youth Bannführer, he had tasted power young. As a P.W. of the Russians, he did a quick about-face. In his "confession," he declared that his parents had forced him into Naziism, but that in Russia his eyes had been opened. Said he: "I want to devote myself to progress. Despite my belated awakening, I beg that I may be accepted." His wish was fulfilled...
...hrer. To blaze the way for another New Order, Zizendorf murders the unsuspecting Leevey and then beats to death harmless, helpless Herr Stintz, who had discovered the murder. As the census taker follows meekly along, as Madame Snow cheers enthusiastically and Jutta waits in bed, Zizendorf becomes Germany's new Fiihrer...
...basic idea of The Cannibal, to present German life from the nightmarish viewpoint of a new Führer, is a good one, though Author Hawkes often mars it by long patches that are obscure in meaning and wild in language. Yet for all its fantasy and its irritating excesses, The Cannibal does sometimes approximate the flavor of postwar German life...