Word: martyrizing
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...Martyr Wessel earned his living as a pimp is glossed over in Germany since he wrote the words of the national Nazi anthem...
...head of the first Jew ever decapitated in German history." Otherwise insignificant, Jew Solly Epstein and equally inconsequent Gentile Hans Zeigler were sentenced to death for the Nazi crime of "watching" outside the flat of Horst Wessel during the brawl on Jan. 14, 1930 in which that Nazi martyr was shot by a Communist. The fact that...
...action in the last analysis. It was a smoke-screen whose effect was primarily for home consumption and, whichever way dispersed on the resulting gale was calculated to enhance the Fuehrer's prestige at home. That it has enveloped him in a mantle of masterful heroism rather than a martyr's shroud for the German people, is simply so much grist to his mill. His position, which the events of the past year, such as the murderous party purge at Munich and elsewhere, indicated as extremely precarious, is again made secure--for the present. Meanwhile a conciliatory attitude by England...
...Stam's brother Jacob said: "We know we will see our dear ones in Heaven, and while there are tears there is an undercurrent of joy, because we know the way of the Lord. They were worthy to be in His service and they were worthy to die a martyr's death...
...Yorkers remembered Klemperer for his height, for the flyaway gestures he used when he conducted the old New York Symphony in 1926 and 27. Those visits were brief, were no fair test. Back in Berlin he became director of the Berlin Staatsoper and six years later a martyr. Nazi youths pummeled him. When his contract had four years to run Adolf Hitler repudiated it because...