Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...August 1958, when 37-year-old Kurt Sumpf opened a café in the little town of Köppern near Frankfurt, he performed what was in effect a silent act of faith in the "new" democratic Germany. The son of Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution, Sumpf had chosen to return to Germany after spending most of his life in Israel...
...were not willing to forget the bad old days. At school, Sumpf's ten-year-old son Peter was regularly greeted with the jeering chorus: "Jew-pig, Jew-pig." One evening soon after Sumpf's arrival, a gang of toughs led by the son of a former Nazi bigwig stalked into the café proclaiming that Sumpf "should have been gassed 20 years ago," spent a drunken half-hour smashing beer glasses against the wall. They returned two weeks later and began to smash up the café furniture. Sumpf called the cops, only to have a police...
...disgust at those who called themselves "German Christians" and toed the Nazi line, Bonhoeffer accepted a pastorate in England in 1933, but returned to Germany when his church called him to take charge of one of its near-illegal seminaries, which were frowned on by the Nazis but permitted to operate on a shoestring in private country houses. In 1937 the Nazis began to stop his work, but two years later Bonhoeffer somehow won permission to come to the U.S., where he had previously spent a year on a scholarship at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. His second stay...
...German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize for his work on the nature of X rays; of injuries in an auto accident; in West Berlin. Though he did atomic research in the early days of World War II, Von Laue quit in 1943 in protest against the Nazi regime. In 1957 he was spokesman for 18 German physicists who opposed equipping West German forces with tactical nuclear weapons...
Conspiracy of Hearts. In a tear-and-terror flick that generates ulcer-perforating tension, Jewish children escaped from a Nazi concentration camp are sheltered in an Italian convent. With Lilli Palmer...