Word: jugend
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...March 20, the Core Committee approved Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith A. Ryan's Foreign Cultures class "Jugend Gegen Hitler" (Youth Against Hitler), and Jeffrey D. Sachs '76, Stone professor of international trade, will offer a Social Analysis course entitled "Wealth and Poverty in the World Economy...
...Olympics better than Adolf Hitler. The show he staged in Berlin in 1936 was, in its grandiose effects, designed to be rhapsodized by Leni Riefenstahl, the epic cinematic poet of Nazism. An array of swastikas lined the Reichs-sportfeld in the vast, mystic excess of the genre; Hitler jugend glowed in the golden well-being of their Aryamsm. At the nighttime finale, reported The New Yorkers Janet Planner "a giant chorus sang Schiller's words to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; overhead, 17 searchlights from far outside the arena made a lofty birdcage of streaming light beams. Imagine...
...Youth Festival, a quadrennial gathering of the young sponsored by the Communist bloc. It attracted 25,000 leftist youths from 134 countries, including 300 from the U.S. They were joined by at least 100,000 blue-shirted members of the German Democratic Republic's highly regimented Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ), Free German Youth...
...ceremonies, so reminiscent of the dark rites of the Hitler Jugend, marked the end of a busy season for the Society for Sport and Technology (Gesellschaft f$#252;r Sport und Technik). All summer long, G.S.T.'s 600,000 East German boys and girls between 14 and 18 had been learning drill and marksmanship, parachuting and radio operating...
...thus hoped to fire with revolutionary fervor the very generation that he felt Russia had lost to "revisionism," the generation of Red Chinese that Dean Rusk once expressed the hope might be "recuperated." The Red Guards were not, after all, a new idea in history; Germany had its Hitler Jugend. Millions of Red Guards poured into Peking and other big Chinese cities. How well Mao's notion has worked could be seen last week in a wall poster signed by Liu Shao-chi's own daughter, in which she denounced her father and mother, accusing them, among other...