Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrests were made under a sweeping Sabotage Act steamrollered through a pliant Parliament last spring. Vowing to "tear out Communism here root and branch," Vorster, a wartime Nazi sympathizer, moved against a variety of the government's most outspoken critics. Some were ranking Reds before South Africa banned the Communist Party in 1950; some were vociferous left-wingers. Others were simply liberals, but that makes little difference to Vorster, who considers liberalism "the forerunner of Communism...
...named becase Nazi toughs broke windows in thousands of Jewish shops and homes...
...families at "Kibbutz Bahan do not quite know what to make of these outward signs of German repentance. "We cannot believe that Germany has changed since the Nazi period," says a youth hostel leader. "Yet we do know that these guests represent new forces in Germany...
...Hess's strange behavior (Hess once had magnets fixed around his bed to draw harmful influences from his body). But like the panel of psychiatrists who found Hess "psychotic but sane'' before the Nürnberg trials (where Hess got a life sentence as a Nazi war criminal). Leasor sees Hess as an unbalanced man obsessed by a childish-and thoroughly Germanic -dream of performing one great convulsive act of patriotism...
...fact, is its documentation of the persistence of Russia's interest in the Hess mission, long after the Allies had brushed it aside. Stalin continually quizzed Churchill about Hess. In 1944, when the Russian armies captured Hess's luckless aide Major Pintsch, who had been released from Nazi prison in order to fight them, they systematically tortured him, breaking one finger a day for ten days, to find out what he knew...