Word: nazi
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...what happened in Germany during World War II, which Benedict called "an insane racist ideology, born of neo-paganism...the attempt, planned and systematically carried out by the regime, to exterminate European Jewry." But where was a more explicit reference to the role of German Catholics in allowing the Nazi deportation of millions of Jews? And where was some reference to the German Pope's own experience? After all, the teenage Joseph Ratzinger was drafted into the Hitler Youth in his native Bavaria, against his will and the wishes of his own anti-Nazi policeman father. Or why not mention...
That hint of feverish emotion behind a cool exterior made Fiennes a star as the silky Nazi sadist in Schindler's List and the enigmatic lover in The English Patient. But those hits, both of which won Oscars for Best Picture, are, respectively, 12 and nine years old. Since then, he has used his wattage to choose parts that suit or stretch his range. He is less worried about his payday or the films' potential grosses, although he can wince over those that failed. Of The Avengers, a high-profile flop, he rues "some spark not there" with co-star...
...Ranting is your word. I would say this: I don?t call anybody a Nazi. I don?t call anybody a fascist. I don?t drop the F bomb on anybody. But I can give you a list as long as your arm of my friends on the left who do that all the time...
...immediately clear which organization was responsible for the attacks, which were the deadliest the city has seen since the Nazi blitz of 1940-1941, although a group calling itself “The Secret Organization of al Qaeda in Europe” posted a message on an extremist website taking credit for the attacks, calling the bombings “a response to the massacres carried out by Britain in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...comic books with the stiff, well-meaning give-aways at school or church will be surprised at the variety and quality of such comix now available. Some of them view history through the lens of personal experience, as in Art Spiegelman's Maus, about his father's internment in Nazi concentration camps. Others, such as Chester Brown's Louis Riel, about a mystical agitator in 19th century Canada, create novelized versions of the lives of historical characters. Rick Geary has become something of a specialist in historical comix, producing half a dozen hardcover books as a series titled "A Treasury...