Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long does it take a lesser Nazi to live down his party activities? Does what he did 23 years ago make his life a permanent open book? Or does the passage of time entitle him to the normal citizen's right of privacy? The recent case of one such West German citizen may well have answered all these questions...
Back in 1943, when bomb-torn Berlin started evacuating pregnant women to his East Prussian hospital, Dr. Emil Martens recklessly remarked to a colleague and fellow Nazi that Germany must be losing the war. The colleague...
...Ernst Klingsiek, scribbled Martens' words on a prescription pad - words that a Nazi judge soon called "worth five death sentences." Condemned to the guillotine. Martens spent a year in prison, mostly in chains, until his dossier was deliberately lost by a Nazi official who happened to be one of his ex-patients. Because officials dared not kill him without proper papers, Martens survived...
When Kurt Georg Kiesinger was first proposed as German Chancellor, much of the world's press expressed shock that a man with a Nazi past could be considered for the post. Kiesinger answered the attacks by citing the enthusiastic support he received from Germany's only nationwide Jewish news paper, Allgemeine Unabhangige Judische Wochenzeitung (General Independent Jewish Weekly). Emphasizing that he had been an inactive, reluctant party member, he referred doubters to the paper's editor. "Ask my friend Karl Marx," he said...
Necessary Anti-Semitism. The Weekly has done nothing to play down its Jewishness. It never hesitates to point out bona fide Nazis who have been given important public office, and it has helped cause 23 of them to be removed. It was among the first newspapers to alert the nation to the growing danger of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party. Nevertheless, the Weekly is often at odds with Jewish opinion abroad. It came to the defense of Adenauer's aide, Hans Globke, when Jews elsewhere were clamoring for his resignation. Though Globke had helped draw up the regulations...