Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NATO would then become the world's fifth power. Inevitably that means giving nuclear weapons to Germany, the new NATO power in Europe. With the memory of the Nazi armies so fresh in the minds of many Europeans, this is no easy decision. Properly enough, the man who will argue Germany's case in Paris this week will be the man who has created West Germany's new army, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss...
...declared unfit for combat. Ending the war as a lieutenant and an instructor at a flak school in southern Bavaria, Strauss was taken prisoner by the U.S. Third Army. It was the break of his life. The Americans made Strauss an interpreter. Then, finding that he was untainted by Nazi ties, they gave him a local-government job. Under American supervision, a new Catholic party was being formed in Bavaria. Joining forces with those who wanted to make it a modern conservative party to include Protestant merchants and Catho lic trade unionists as well as the peasant diehards, Strauss...
...psychological problems of creating the new German army were unique. Though it was to be a democratic army, its first officers obviously had to be veterans of the old Wehrmacht, nearly all of whom had been willing Nazi servants. Strauss set up a special "Inner Leadership" school in Koblenz where the officers were shown movies of Nazi atrocities, given handbooks on democratic treatment of subordinates. The government provided elaborate legal safeguards for the new soldier's rights and easily accessible channels through which he could air his citizen gripes. A West German soldier is told: "A command must...
...Jewish terror. Among the principal heroes: a saintly old assassin (David Opatoshu) attached somehow to a Coptic synagogue, a psychotic youth (Mineo) apparently restored to sanity by a regimen of mass murder. The kind of blind hatred that excuses the Jewish terror was also used to excuse the Nazi extermination camps...
...fine vignette followed another: Churchill sitting in a wheelchair in Manhattan, bandages on his nose and forehead, after an automobile nearly ended his life on Fifth Avenue in 1931; Hitler barking Sieg, Sieg, in antiphony with the full-throated Heils of massed Germans; the odd and sinister British-Nazi faction of Sir Oswald Mosley goose-stepping in Hyde Park; the garden walls hand-built by Churchill during his enforced retirement at Chartwell; later shots of Winston Churchill walking the deck of a British battleship, wearing bow tie and bowler and carrying a cane. First Lord of the Admiralty once more...