Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interfere in the affairs of state. But Union Theological Seminary's Pauck points out that Luther, in his tract On Civil Government, argued that a Christian must disobey a political ruler who expects him to disobey the will of God. It is no accident that the martyred anti-Nazi hero of the World War II German resistance, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was a Lutheran...
...murderer ever escapes his victims; they are linked irrevocably through guilt and revenge. Just as Nazi Germany was mankind's most methodical mass mur derer, the Jew is mankind's most experienced victim. The intelligence of his Talmudic tradition is analytical and speculative, but the intelligence of his history is empirical: survival demands more than a dwelling on the past; it requires careful soundings of the symptomatic currents of the present...
...hippies turned out to sing folk-rock songs, watch a psychedelic parachutist descend from a "high trip," and listen to Hindu prayers by Sometime Guru Allen Ginsberg, who has survived the transition from beat to hip. Even members of Hell's Angels, the roughknuckled, leather-jacketed motorcyclists in Nazi drag, turned up to turn on: some were seen holding lost children or gently shaking tambourines. Not a single fight marred the Be-In, and as the sun went down (to the sullen wail of Ginsberg blowing a conch shell), the forgathered hippies quietly cleared every bit of litter from...
...aging Emil Nolde became the only major German expressionist to join the Nazi Party. Much good it did him. For all his Frisian peasant conservatism, the Nazis soon called him a "degenerate" modern artist and stripped his works from German museums. In 1941, he was forbidden to sell his art or even to paint. At 73, Nolde retreated from Berlin to his summer home in Seebull, not far from his birthplace on the North Sea coast-but he did not stop painting. To his diary he revealed: "I still hold my head high, and only to you, my little pictures...
Actually, his lot was not terribly tormented. Lifelong friends looked after him, and local merchants accepted paintings in exchange for food. Recalls Andreas Hansen, then (as now) mayor of tiny Neukirchen and the ranking local Nazi: "Every week my wife and I visited the Noldes and we chatted. This was my inspection. I knew that he painted, but I kept my eyes closed...