Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cubbyholes for offices, they keep electric fans running year-round to circulate the air. One darkroom, a converted closet, is so small that Chief Printer Anthony Allen "won't let anyone stay in there more than a quarter-hour." Corrugated iron roofing stift hides crumbling wreckage untouched since Nazi bombardiers blitzed London 27 years ago. To the delight of its readers, the Times recently discovered that "a race of wild cats" lives, loves and dies in the basement ventilating shafts...
Bonhoeffer was 37, and Maria von Wedemeyer 19, when they were engaged in 1943. Bonhoeffer had come back to Nazi Germany from America voluntarily to join the resistance movement. A few months after their engagement Bonhoeffer was arrested and imprisoned...
Trial for Fascism. At the annual Frankfurt fall book fair, 200 chanting students gleefully tore up Springer books and magazines. Oblivious to similar acts in the Nazi era, left-wing Erlangen University students staged a burning of Springer publications. A group of liberal writers declared they will never again write for a Springer paper and urged their publishers to withhold advertising from Springer publications. When Springer went to give a speech at the Hamburg Overseas Club recently, he had to slip in a side door while five squads of riot police protected him from angry pickets, whose banners declared: "Never...
Abraham's Choice. The novel is a stark tale that shows how the ghosts of the Hitler era still haunt the Promised Land. In a Polish concentration camp, Nazi guards tell Haim Kalinsky that since his two sons are so "nice," they will kill only one of them-thus forcing on him a sadistic perversion of Abraham's choice. Kalinsky selects his favorite, eleven-year-old Shmuel, to be spared, while six-year-old Daniel is led away to be slaughtered...
...Shmuel is dead, and the father later emigrates to Israel. But the Nazi camp commander has not actually killed Daniel; his aim was only to torment the father. Saved by a whim, the embittered youth also descends upon Israel. There the tensions of filial hatred and paternal remorse are unstrung against the sun-scorched background of today's Beersheba, city of patriarchs. Author Dayan's hard-bitten way with the English language raises this novel well above the sagging sentimentality of the Urises and Micheners...