Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast majority of Germans wanted to let the statute of limitations against further trials of Nazi war criminals expire this spring and the whole business be done with. Franz Josef Strauss, the erratic ex-Defense Minister who is trying hard for a comeback, sneered that if the trials were to continue, "war criminals" on the Russian side should be tried too. But Chancellor Erhard and the Bundestag extended the statute. In a moving speech on the site of the Belsen concentration camp, President Heinrich Lübke recalled that many non-Jewish Germans were executed or imprisoned for opposing...
...Germany's leaders have often said, the enormities of the Nazi past cannot, in a sense, be expiated; one reason that the Germans are so sensitive to every real or fancied slight is that they themselves are unable to forget. But the Germans never really had a full chance to come to terms with their guilt feelings: less than four years after their defeat, they passed from being pariahs to valuable pawns in the East-West struggle-a bewildering and indecent haste hardly calculated to reinforce any moral lessons. Moreover, West Germany has become a youthful nation: over half...
...sure history will record 1965 as the year when, after 20 years of sleep, the Germans awoke to a sense of nationalism," asserts one French diplomat. This new nationalism shows none of the ugly, fanatical marks of the Nazi era. So far, at least, it consists of an increased self-confidence and a growing concern with national purpose. Unsettling though it may be for a watching world, this awakening was, as Willy Brandt said not long ago, "as inevitable as the sunrise. No people can live without pride...
...impose "war guilt" on the vanquished, Germany developed, in the words of one historian, "an overwhelming sense of communal shame"-not for causing the war, but for the old Spartan sin of losing it. Delayed nationhood, humiliation, plus economic chaos and the example of Communist methods from which the Nazis borrowed much-each is essential but none is sufficient to explain Nazism. It could not have happened but for two additional qualities that in the past at least have always seemed to be part of the German character. One is romanticism, the antirational worship of Wagnerian life and death...
...Apostles' Creed, the Scots Confession of 1560, the Heidelberg Catechism of 1563, excerpts from 1566's Second Helvetic Confession, the Westminster Confession and Shorter Catechism, and the 1934 Barmen Declaration, a rejection of secular claims to power over the church, composed by Germany's anti-Nazi Confessing Church...