Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hitler's appeal, too little of its consequences. Jews in particular protest that it skims over the horrors of Nazism while dwelling mainly on Hitler as the hypnotic spellbinder who wooed millions of Germans into a criminal war. Says Werner Nachman, chairman of West Germany's Jewish Central Committee: "The younger generation is being shown a Hitler that does not tell them who he really was." Karl-Heinz Janssen, a member of the editorial board of the weekly Die Zeit, says flatly that "the film is dangerous," arguing that its "academic commentaries [criticizing Hitler] are over the heads...
...fearful that civil order would be disturbed, the city was seeking a court order to prevent a black civil rights group even from marching on the public sidewalks in the allwhite Marquette Park area. Authorities also passed the word they would grant no parade permits there this month to Jewish, Nazi or black groups, because Marquette Park is already booked up with sport and youth events, and "traffic problems" would result. More important, as the Marquette area's deputy chief of patrol Charles Pepp admitted, "a march could very well precipitate a major race riot...
...season's troubles started when Frank Collin, self-styled Fuhrer of a tiny Chicago-based Nazi splinter group called the National Socialist Party of America, announced plans for a May 1 parade through Skokie, a heavily Jewish suburb north of Chicago. Some 7,000 survivors of World War II Nazi concentration camps live in the village. Skokie authorities swiftly banned the demonstration, and militant Jewish Defense League spokesmen promised to keep the Nazi marchers out with force...
...reckon with ever since Adolph Ochs bought it in 1896, 45 years after the paper was founded by a Republican politician and a few months before it would have died of terminal mismanagement. Ochs (which he pronounced ox, its meaning in German), the Cincinnati-born son of German-Jewish immigrants, had at the age of 20 acquired the flagging Chattanooga Times and revived it. He set out to work a similar miracle on Park Row, the Times's home until he moved it north in 1904 to Longacre Square (which city fathers then renamed Times Square). Ochs banished fiction from...
...escaped. Wilfried Böse, a long time member, took part last year in the hijacking of the Air France Airbus to Entebbe. When a Jewish hostage who had survived a concentration camp showed Bose his inmate registration number tattooed on his arm, Bose was indignant. I'm no Nazi!" he protested...