Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Nancy stuck to her choice of jail over sterilization. Duly revoking her probation, Judge Kearney relented only to the extent of giving her three months rather than six months in jail. "I'm not trying to be a Nazi," insisted the judge. "It seemed to me that she should not have more children because of her propensity to live an immoral life." Countered Lawyer Renga: "Sure she made a mistake-and he wants to kill her insides...
Protest Would Do No Good. He cites Pius' attempt to help save the Jews of Rome from deportation by the Germans, takes note of papal statements that indicate Pius' personal anguish over Nazi atrocities. Friedlander also quotes from a long letter that the Pope wrote to Berlin's Bishop Konrad von Preysing in 1943 suggesting that an open protest would do no good, since it would only stir Hitler to worse evils. He includes the argument made by Vatican diplomats that for Pius to attack Hitler during the war would involve German Catholics in a crisis...
...Nazi archives, when taken at face value, tend to undercut this rationale. Nazi diplomats kept reporting back home that Pius had "affection" and "respect" for the German people. Shortly before the fall of France, Diego von Bergen, the German Ambassador to the Vatican, wrote to Berlin that high-placed officials of the Holy See had assured him that they wanted the Allies to accept a negotiated peace on the Western front. In August 1943, the new German Ambassador to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, told Berlin that in Rome, "Bolshevism is the greatest cause of concern." Friedlander is aware...
...stupor and we awake with him the next morning to find the camera turned upside down. Soon we become vicarious inhabitants of his village. We walk next to him along the main street as he tips his hat to friends and we cringe with him when a troop of Nazi soldiers passes...
Keen Vision. "At the end of September 1944," he begins, "I was arrested again and sent to the Gestapo prison at Brauweiler. I was kept in solitary confinement and liked it." Adenauer had been in and out of Nazi prisons since 1933, when Hitler booted him from the lord-mayoralty of Cologne. At war's end, he was a tough, uncompromising democrat of 70, unfazed by the horrors of defeat (he had witnessed the decline of both Bismarck and the Kaiser). When the Gestapo released him during the Götterdämmerung of the Allied advance, Adenauer trekked...