Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proud history, the U.S. Army has suffered no more galling defeats than it did on the nation's peacetime rocket ranges after World War II. With a group of ex-Nazi rocketmen as its nucleus (Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus), the Army bled its budget to set up in the missile business-and, in fact, saved the nation's face by launching the first U.S. satellite after Sputnik. But the Defense Department ruled that long-range rocketing was properly the role for the Air Force, and the Army's Redstone Arsenal was turned over to the National...
Unhappily, the second stage of this cinema vehicle fails to fire. Instead, it explodes in a splatter of platitudes about the moral dereliction of the scientific community-personified in Von Braun. The moviemakers, nervous perhaps about possible public reaction to Von Braun's Nazi record and the responsibility he shares for the V-2 attacks on London, have leaned over backward to stress his war guilt, with the unhappy result that the hero comes off as a jolly accomplice in mass murder, an affable fanatic who cares everything about rockets and nothing about the people they happen to kill...
...three companies are the chief heirs' of I. G. Farben, once the largest corporation in Nazi Germany, which was broken up by the Allied occupiers in 1945. The $2.8 billion chemical trust was stripped of $1 billion worth of assets and 30,000 patents, deprived of 60% of its properties by the Russians and Poles, divided into 44 separate companies in the Western zone-including the three major chemical firms now sparking the West German market. In their remarkable comeback, the three companies last year rang up sales of $1.7 billion-more than three times the sales...
...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Author William Shirer has undertaken to tell the entire Hitler story in one massive volume. A former reporter and newscaster, Shirer covered Germany and the Nazis from 1925 until the U.S. entered the war, and his bestselling Berlin Diary (TIME, June 23, 1941) was one of the earliest casebooks of Nazi practice. To his huge task Shirer brings only modest writing gifts, but he has an advantage that swamps all shortcomings: his material is horribly fascinating. He has done thorough research in captured documents, in books and in diaries. The result...
...distaste for democracy, coupled with a veneration for authority, enabled thugs to make a deal with respectable elements and then terrorize a whole nation. Shirer plainly believes that in Hitler the Germans got a leader to their taste. He points out that the industrialists assumed the debt of the Nazi Party, that most Protestant pastors swore a personal oath of allegiance to Hitler, that the average man hardly seemed to notice the loss of his liberties, and quotes Philosopher Oswald Spengler's comment after Hitler's takeover: "It is no victory, for the enemies were lacking...