Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barnacled fleet had to scuttle itself to avoid capture. Returning from Versailles. Raeder said: "Just wait 25 years. We'll be back." In half that time Raeder was building pocket battleships for Hitler, who made him an honorary member of the Nazi Party. But in World War II, when his battleships proved no more decisive than those of the Kaiser, Hitler fired him, made submarine-warring Karl Doenitz grand admiral of the German fleet. Following Hitler's defeat, Raeder was tried as a top war criminal, sentenced to life imprisonment. Said proud, glory-loving Raeder in a special...
...crimes system was made to seem particularly unjust in German eyes last week by the climax of the case of notorious Nazi War Propagandist Werner Naumann. Onetime righthand man to Goebbels, Naumann went underground in 1945 and stayed there through the bitter de-Nazification period, emerging only when new laws enabled him to escape being labeled a major offender. An unrepenting Hitlerite, he was soon active in neo-Nazi circles. Arrested by the British in 1953 for "endangering the occupation," he was deprived of the right to make public speeches, write for the press, broadcast or hold public office...
KRUPP, Germany's famed wartime munitions-maker, is going back into armaments, this time to make aircraft. Krupp's partner: Designer Heinrich Focke of the wartime team of Focke-Wulf, which turned out the famed Fw-190 Nazi fighter...
Died. Walter Riehl, 73, Austrian founder of the German National Socialist Workers' Party, which was first (1918) to use the swastika as a party emblem, was one of the splinter groups later welded by Hitler into the Nazi movement; of a heart attack; in Vienna...
...quoted in the House of Commons from Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing ... In the name of God, go!" A lifelong imperialist, he lived to see his son John convicted and hanged for high treason in 1945 for broadcasting Nazi propaganda; his other son, Julian, Conservative M.P. since 1950, parachuted into occupied Albania in World War II, worked with partisans as a liaison officer...