Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service for men of '36 and the entire University in September; six weeks later the Corporation ended a dispute of two years' standing with the vote to allow Harvard's three German war dead a memorial tablet in the new church. Before the Class of '36 had graduated the Nazi swastika adorned the tablet, placed there by a visiting German official...
...mock trial in the Lowell House Common Room early in the fall of 1934 convicted Adolf Hitler on only two criminal counts out of four; yet even in its serio-comic recognition of Nazi Germany, the Harvard community was beginning to shake the sleep from its eyes. Local politics, however, lost no ground to international. Boston's Mayor Curley got a no-confidence vote from numerous Faculty professors, and hostility to President Roosevelt was confirmed by a straw vote of Faculty and undergraduates. Again Harvard conservatives stood out against the national voice, which of course voted in New Dealers...
...that died.in the late '30s with Hitler, the swastika, and a Nazi professor shouting: "We do not recognize truth for truth's sake." Many wondered if Heidelberg, which once so heavily influenced scholars and students from Tokyo to Texas, would ever rise again...
Coventry became a household word synonymous with utter demolition on the night of Nov. 14, 1940, when the Nazi Luftwaffe, in one of the most terrible raids of the war, systematically pulverized the industrial town in the English Midlands, killing more than 500 people. Center and symbol of the destruction was St. Michael's Cathedral, of which nothing was left the next morning but the famed 15th century tower and spire. While the rubble still smoked, a local craftsman, under the Bishop of Coventry's direction, bound two charred timbers from the roof together with wire to make...
...actual operation in this world, religious groups have always sought "to make of God an instrument of national policy," and he cites the familiar examples of clerics, on opposite sides of a war, invoking God's blessing for their troops or preaching obedience, for instance, to the Nazi leaders in World War II. Actually, of course, this may prove no more than the fact that philosophers, appealing to their god-Logic-also supported national regimes, including the Nazi and the Communist tyrannies...