Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sinister figure of General Tanz Nazi Germany, at least, finds a brilliant embodiment. Although most of the other characters are sketched in only with enough completeness to establish them as sympathetic or not, Tanz is fully and compellingly detailed. Looking like "a painting by someone who had tried to capture the essence of heroism," he is nevertheless subject to strange tics and seizures, inexplicable quirks of behavior; a steely disciplinarian, indifferent to the value of individual lives, he displays exemplary courage and single-minded patriotism. Clearly Tanz is meant to be a mythic, archetypal figure--Herr Kirst even goes...
Chemist Robert Havemann is a tortured German intellectual who embraced Communism before 1933 as a way to oppose Nazism. Then a topflight scientist at Berlin's famed Kaiser-Wilhelm (now Max Planck) Institute, he was saved from a Nazi death sentence when the German army argued that he could be more useful with his head on than off. As a result, he did chemical research for the Wehrmacht during World War II while locked up in Brandenburg Prison. After the war Communist Havemann became one of East Germany's star scholars, won the Patriotic Order of Merit from...
...rotten eggs in the party's nest." But instead of denouncing him, the Humboldt University Communist Party cell voted to back Havemann. Finally, the government was forced into the embarrassing position of firing its eminent scholar. The regime dismissed the outspoken Havemann as a "degenerate thinker"-a favorite Nazi charge used for silencing dangerous opposition...
...Frankfurt trial was part of a massive, painful effort by West Germans to purge the nation of its Nazi past by finally facing the facts of how and why 4,000,000 Jews, Poles, Russians and gypsies perished at Auschwitz. Other grim facts from Hitler's hideous era were emerging at the euthanasia trial in Limburg, where Hans Hefelmann, 58, an agronomist, was in the dock, charged with complicity in the Nazis' monstrous euthanasia scheme...
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