Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majorities. As Germans see it, it is an attempt to bring renewal to German national life and to reconcile many of the old antagonisms, both political and religious, that have segmented it. Its cast confirms the effort. Kurt Kiesinger, a Christian Democrat, is a onetime member of the Nazi Party?a fact on which the world's press has concentrated almost singlemindedly. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, 52, the Social Democrat who came into the government as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister, was a wartime refugee from the Nazis and a member of the underground. Herbert Wehner, 60, the powerful...
...rightist National Democratic Party. The problem is that no matter how much the West Germans may want to change their role and status in the world, they are stuck with their past?just as the man they chose as Chancellor is stuck with his unfortunate decision to join the Nazi Party...
About this time, Kurt Kiesinger was also making another important decision. Politics in Germany had boiled down to a battle between the Communists and the Nazis, and many Catholic and Protestant leaders saw in the Nazis the only chance to save Germany?and Christianity? from the Red Peril. In 1933?the year that Hitler was elected Reich Chancello ?Kurt Kiesinger became a member of the Nazi Party. It took only a year for Kiesinger to realize that he could not hope to influence developments within Hitler's increasingly brutal movement. For a time he considered emigrating to Brazil...
Germany's leaders were also becoming alarmed by the cries of neo-Nazism from abroad that greeted recent National Democratic victories and whirled around the head of Kurt Kiesinger, a onetime member of the Nazi Party. By seeing a Nazi rebirth in the victory of the National Democrats, foreign critics tended to overlook the fact that 92.6% of Bavaria's voters backed the dominant democratic parties-and that the party's vote was too small even to have won a single seat in Bavaria had it not been for Germany's use of proportional representation...
...brush with the Nazi Party, Kiesinger last week released the text of a 1948 ruling by a denazification board, which commended him for opposing "Nazi despotism through the possibilities open to him" and quoted the testimony of German Catholic and Protestant leaders that Kiesinger had helped try to overthrow Adolph Hitler after the failure of the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt...