Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small groups [of Africans] who are really considering their own interests." In the same building six weeks before, Britain's Harold Macmillan had warned of the "wind of change" sweeping the continent and of Britain's sympathies with nationalist aims. To Verwoerd, who edited a pro-Nazi newspaper during World War II and might have been expected to choose his historical comparisons more carefully, Macmillan's attitude smacked of Munich-like appeasement. "The West is abdicating in Africa and leaving the white man in the lurch," he complained. "It is robbing the black masses of training...
Last week Komsomolskaya Pravda offered a partial accounting. The Soviet Commission Investigating German Atrocities had taken testimony from one Nina Pietruszkowna, a young Polish interpreter for the Italian command, who said that after Mussolini's fall in 1943, Nazi authorities in Lvov asked Italian troops and officers to swear allegiance to Hitler Germany and continue the war against the Soviet Union, and that those who refused were arrested. "More than 2,000 Italians were arrested, and the Nazis shot them all," she testified. "Among those shot were five generals and 45 officers, many of whom I knew personally...
...latest of Gary's books to appear in the U.S. is actually the second book he wrote, was published in France. Its heroes are the partisans of Poland during the Nazi occupation; and even now. after shelves have been jammed with books superficially like it. A European Education conveys its horror and its message with stubborn authority. Author Gary (for the past four years French consul general in Los Angeles) is a French citizen born of Russian actor parents. As a boy he went to school for a year or two in Poland, speaks its language and understands...
...preserve the spirit of partners. Most Western Europeans had reluctantly come to accept U.S. bases in Spain as necessary to the defense of the West, but they were not prepared to make any such allowances for Germany, mindful of the bonds that once linked Franco and Hitler and the Nazi airmen of the Condor Legion who helped bring Franco to power. In London, 140 Opposition M.P.s signed a resolution protesting Strauss's plan, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan himself expressed his disapproval to visiting German parliamentarians. Said the Church Times, unofficial voice of the Church...
There, as throughout Germany, hundreds of Jewish businessmen were being persecuted by the Nazis, forced to sell their businesses at ridiculously low prices to get enough cash to flee Germany. Always a man interested in a cut rate-whatever the moral implications-Neckermann took advantage of the forced sales to buy the mail order house of Carl Joel. As a big supplier to the military, Neckermann was exempted from military duty when World War II began, became a Nazi well connected in party circles. At war's end, the Allies sentenced him to a year's imprisonment...