Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past. He understood the German character and the nation's need in the dire days after the war for an authoritarian father figure, which he provided. He did not allow notions of guilt to cripple his actions, but he unflinchingly accepted German guilt for the war and the Nazi atrocities and unhesitatingly made massive reparations to Israel. Adamantly opposed to Communism as a tyranny as evil as Nazism, he insisted that U.S. troops remain in Germany. And when the time came, he insisted, too, that Germany rearm as part of NATO even though much of German public opinion opposed...
...satire, Kirst has now joined many of his fellow writers in the thriving literary guilt business. He lectures his German readers on their inexpiable wartime sins. His psychological thriller, The Night of the Generals, made into a poor movie (TIME, Feb. 10), was sharpened with moral indignation at the Nazi officer class, which served as Kirst's human symbol for German inhumanity during World War II. Like the earlier book, the present Brothers in Arms also has two levels, one occupied by Kirst's story, the other by his sermon...
...story moves at the beat of a beer-garden band. Sixteen years after the war, in the village of Rheine-Bergen, six veterans of a Nazi machine-gun squad face the necessity of killing a brother in arms for the second time. Their victim is Michael Meiners, left for dead on the Eastern front while the other squad members deserted before the advancing Russians. Meiners' reappearance menaces the peace of men who have deliberately paved over the past, and his murder is promptly arranged. In case any reader has missed the point, Author Kirst puts it on the tongue...
...MURDERERS AMONG US: THE WIESENTHAL MEMOIRS, edited by Joseph Wechsberg. The incredible career of Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who brought Adolf Eichmann and 800 other war criminals to final justice, is told in a spare, striking style reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op-now on international assignment...
...person present at the meeting identified himself to reporters as a member of the "Nazi Reichs Party of America." He described the meeting as "disgusting," but added that he had come only on his own initiative "to see what kinds of people you have here...