Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing under an olive tree in Sicily in September 1943, an unsmiling American general accepted Italy's unconditional surrender. Just 20 months later, the same general, still stiff and frozen faced, met in a French schoolhouse with the emissaries of defeated Nazi Germany, and without outward emotion scribbled his name on the document that ended World War II in Europe. Those two rustic but historic occasions marked the climax of a brilliant military career for Walter Bedell Smith. In the postwar years, he served his nation notably as a diplomat and as chief of intelligence...
Though Hitler seemed to cover his subjects thoroughly in Mein Kampf, it appeared last week that he wrote a second book. Hitlers Zweites Buck (Hitler's Second Book) was dictated to a sloppy typist in 1928, but never published. At the time, the Nazi Party and publishing house were ailing, and as the years went by, Hitler's second thoughts made publication of the second book seem inadvisable...
...Signal Corps captain assigned to collecting Nazi documents received a manuscript alleged to be a copy of this unpublished work. Transferred with a mountain of other captured documents to Washington archives under the number EAP 105/40, the manuscript was all but forgotten. Scholarly sleuths from Munich's Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History-TIME, Dec. 7, 1959) finally tracked it down, discovered that the University of Michigan's Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg had beaten them...
...Iron Curtain, Poland has most successfully kept alive its cultural ties with the West. One of the hardiest roots has been the long Polish tradition of abstract art, some of whose practitioners date their conversions back to the days of early cubism and Russian constructivism. Even six years of Nazi occupation failed to eradicate it; a 1945 victory exhibition in Cracow abounded in fantastic expressionist and nonobjective canvases. Though this first frantic flowering was followed by a wintery decade of tough Stalinist socialist realism, Polish painters worked in secret. "For the mass of the people, the stumbling block between themselves...
...survivor of the terror and famine of Nazi concentration camps, Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna, is the founder and currently leader of the school of Logotherapy, the newest approach to psychotherapy since the work of Freud, Adler and Jung...