Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What civilized person could ever imagine those nice Americans devising such a fiendish scheme as the Morgenthau plan . . ." Faces dimmed. ". . . to reduce Germany to an agrarian country? Such childish nonsensel! Ach ja, Hitler did lose the war for us, but did we not suffer enough? I am no Nazi . . ." Nodding heads in the group indicated that no one was, or indeed ever had been, a Nazi. ". . . but trying to force your Democracy on us like an insect spray, ja it was too silly...
Lesser men seized on his exalting of the "select minority" to forward the Nazi cause, conveniently disregarding his characteristic distinction that "the select man is not the petulant person who thinks himself superior to the rest but the man who demands more of himself than the rest . . ." When Spain overthrew the monarchy, against which he had inveighed so powerfully, Ortega took a seat in the new Cortes but almost immediately found the new republic "sad and sour," nothing like the enlightened instrument of civilization that he had envisioned...
...private problems. Carrying with it a Russian general's "word of honor" that its "personal safety is assured," the group headed for Russia. One of the group's leaders was General Leopold Okulicki, who succeeded General Bor as leader of the home underground army that fought the Nazis and then, in a vain bid to stop the transfer of Poland from Nazi to Red rule, harassed the on-moving Red army. Soon after crossing the border, the 16 were flicked from view...
...contract, and the ways in which serotonin and other body chemicals cancel each other's effects. Dr. James McCubbin is probing breakdowns in nerve impulses that throw blood-pressure control out of kilter. Famed Internist Willem Kolff, who invented the artificial kidney when his native Netherlands was under Nazi occupation, has developed a $14 model in a gallon can. Dr. Page himself spends two or three days a week in the lab-last week he was testing the effects of new chemicals on blood pressure in dogs...
...Adolf Hitler proclaimed Porsche a Nazi hero, commissioned him to design the Third Reich's famous "people's car" (Volkswagen). Porsche produced a design, but the Nazis, who built only 200, abandoned the project (after milking some 300,000 Germans for advance payments) and assigned Porsche to design weapons, notably the famed Tiger tank. In 1945, he was arrested by French troops and after a trial, jailed for two years as a war criminal...