Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been that she has felt she deserves to win the competition, and has oriented her political and cultural life solely towards making the victory as complete as possible, and establishing an intellectual and moral justification for this victory. The state-structure and the bizarre Volk--idealogy of the Nazi regime were only extreme instances of this 75-year attempt...
...Nazi regime, in fact, was the ad absurdum of this history. The seven years of its success (1933-), however, are not merely a tribute to the logic of history, or--as has been more widely supposed--to the power-mania of Adolf Hitler...
...perhaps, worth it to see Judy Garland gone to seed (way over the rainbow) and hear Marlene Dietrich sing a snatch of Lili Marlene. The producers of the film undoubtedly think they have made the epic of the decade and solved all possible moral questions of Nazi Germany...
...Vatican's new list of causes contains a number that date back for centuries; one of the longest-standing is that of the 15th century painter Fra Angelico, who is still only a "servant of God." But two potential saints owe their candidacies to World War II Nazi persecution. One is the Polish Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe, who was shipped to a concentration camp in 1939. There one day, Father Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a married man who had been scheduled for punishment. The penalty: death by starvation in Auschwitz' notorious hunger bunker...
...other Nazi victim was Carmelite Father Titus Brandsma, a Dutch-born journalist famed for his prewar anti-German writings who was captured by Nazi troops after The Netherlands surrendered in 1940. Brandsma refused to retract his anti-Nazi views, died "protecting Christianity against National Socialism" in a Dachau gas chamber...