Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany's "new nationalism," which holds that the time has come for the young and powerful nation to assert its own voice in international affairs, relying on its allies only for the nuclear might to back it up. Most dubious part of his record: he is a onetime Nazi party member who explains that he joined in 1933 only as a way to get ahead...
...Andric, 69, won the Nobel Prize for literature. The second author-diplomat tapped in two years (1960 recipient: French Poet St. John Perse) and the first of his countrymen ever honored by the Swedish Academy, the unassuming, owlish-looking Serb was Yugoslav minister to Berlin when the Nazis invaded his country in 1941. Abandoning public life, he settled down to write a sweeping Bosnian trilogy, completed The Bridge on the Drina, a history-haunted hymn to his native land, while it was still under Nazi occupation. A onetime president of Yugoslavia's Communist Federation of Writers but never...
Returning to Germany, Heiliger spent six wretched years in the Nazi army, entering as a private and emerging as the same. But as early as 1946 he got his first show in Berlin, and his fortunes have been mounting ever since. His 1938 BMW sports car gave way to a beige Porsche 1500. This, in turn, was replaced by a white Porsche 1600 Super, and finally by a couple of Jaguars, in which Heiliger speeds around Berlin's Avus race course whenever he feels depressed...
Died. The Rev. Henry F. Gerecke, 68, Lutheran minister and longtime Protestant chaplain to several penal institutions who served as a chaplain at the Nürnberg war crimes trials after World War II, won the affection and trust of several high-ranking Nazi prisoners (among them: Julius Streicher, General Alfred Jodl, Dr. Hans Frank), prayed at the execution of six of the convicted and was disappointed when Hermann Göring, who he thought had made a '"sincere" return to religion, preferred a cyanide of potassium capsule to his final ministrations; of a heart attack; in Chester...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). James Mason and Jessica Tandy in 20th Century-Fox's controversial biography of Nazi General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. Color...