Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Group Captain Adolf Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan, 52, one of World War II's top air aces, South African merchant sailor who traded his sea legs for wings, bagged 35 Nazi planes as an R.A.F. Spitfire pilot, returned home to organize 250,000 veterans into the "Torch Commando," which disbanded in 1953 after an unsuccessful campaign to change the racist policies of Prime Minister Daniel Malan, a distant relative; of pneumonia; in Kimberley, South Africa...
...viscissitudes serve only as a debilitating influence on two people struggling to stay afloat. A modern Germanic Everyman, Alois's desire for love and procreation has been perverted by a hyperdermic needle and a heavy dose of ideology. Unable to shift as rapidly as his neighbors and finding his Nazi utterances dated and scorned, Alois slowly drives himself and his wife insane...
...Lasky's dislike for the President appears almost as adoration compared to how he feels about the President's father. He depicts Joseph P. Kennedy as anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi, as a fearful, cringing figure during the London blitz, and as perhaps the most ruthless, malign businessman in U.S. history. To Lasky it was Joe's dough alone that made Jack President and Bobby the nation's second most powerful man. And the father did it all to avenge an ethnic insult. "Having suffered all the slights and indignities Brahmin Boston could contrive...
...Grafin Donhoff for 17 years. They know by now that as foreign editor of Die Zeit, a small, opinionated weekly published in Hamburg, she will seldom say any thing to give them ease. After the war ended, for example, most Germans felt that the less said about their Nazi past the better. But Die Zeit and die Grafin boldly demanded that all German war criminals be punished for their crimes. After the Chancellor appointed one Theodor Oberlander to his Cabinet, Die Zeit raised the issue of Oberlander's wartime involvement with the persecution of South Poland's Jews...
...picked an immediate quarrel with the British occupation officials, firing off a strong protest against the suspicion with which they viewed all Germans. Her letter came to the attention of a lawyer named Gerd Bucerius-himself a mettlesome man, who had spent most of the war years in Nazi Germany at the unpopular task of defending Jews in court. Bucerius, who was then getting ready to launch Die Zeit, recognized a kindred spirit and hired the Grafin at once...