Word: leys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Ley's brain was en route to Washington within a week after the bibulous Nazi labor leader's suicide. The U.S. Surgeon General's office wanted to find out for sure what was the matter...
...Ley's choice for a defender at the war criminals' trial, said an Army major, had been Father Charles E. Coughlin...
Among the opportunists, perverts, gangsters and men of distorted genius who rose to power in Hitler's Germany, Dr. Robert Ley was an exception. The boss of Germany's Labor Front was a rather ordinary little man, fond of his bottle and frantically fervent in his adulation of Hitler and Naziism. "National Socialism has made an end to the bone-softening doctrine of life negation," he once said. "Germans are fanatics of life." When he was arrested last May, he moaned: "Life [without Hitler] does not mean a damn thing...
...meant what he said. One evening last week, in his war criminal's cell at Nürnberg, Robert Ley hanged himself...
...Labor Front Leader Robert Ley: "I don't see how you can make laws after things have been done. Even God first made the Ten Commandments and judged people by them afterward...