Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister for Defense: small (5 ft. 4 in.) Trade Unionist Theodor Blank, 49, since 1950 head of a shadow defense ministry called "Bureau Blank," which is set up in a dingy brick building in a Bonn back street. In 1933, Union Organizer Blank chose unemployment rather than the Nazi Arbeitsfront. When war came he joined the Wehrmacht as a private, finished up as a first lieutenant in an American P.W. camp. Blank makes frequent speeches about how the new army will be de-Prussianized; the real soldiers who will command the troops are currently being kept out of the headlines...
Haya, a brilliant theorist, gave Apra a philosophy dizzyingly compounded of anti-U.S. nationalism, Marxism, reverence for the Incas, Nazi symbolism and even Einstein's theory of relativity as applied by Haya to history. Fighting back bloodily against the suppressive tactics of a series of dictators, Apra earned mass support and the hatred of the rich rightists and the army. Finally, in 1945, retiring President Manuel Prado allowed a free election. José Luis Bustamante, an Apra-supported but non-Aprista President, was chosen, and Apra had working control of Congress...
...Emilia," hotbed of Italian Communism, and was educated for the priesthood at the Vatican's Russian College, training center for Russian priests and missionaries bound for the U.S.S.R.-if and when they are permitted there. When Italian troops marched into the U.S.S.R. in 1941 alongside their Nazi allies, Russian-speaking Jesuit Leoni went along as a chaplain. In 1943, released by the disintegrating Italian army, he decided to stay on in Russia as a civilian priest and settled in Odessa, which had been abandoned by the retreating Reds. Recalls Father Leoni: "The churches were reopened, and the people...
World. War II: When the Germans invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, Tito took to the hills. Stalin, still chummy with Adolf Hitler (the Nazi-Soviet pact stayed in force until June, when the Nazis invaded Russia), ordered the Yugoslav Communists to confine themselves to sabotage. During these first months, Serb Colonel Draja Mihailovich, loyal to the Mon archy, fought off the Nazis. Tito set up a rival guerrilla army, eventually had 150,000 men, enough to tie down 15 Axis divisions. He proved himself the most successful guerrilla commander of World War II. At first the Western Allies supported Mihailovich...
...hero as a German U-boat skipper in World War I and a martyr as a Nazi prisoner in World War II, West Germany's pugnacious Pastor Martin Niemöller, neutralist foe of his country's rearmament, began a skirmish with his own Evangelical Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose...