Word: nazis
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...Nice Uniforms Chicago-based Glenview State Bank apologized for praising Nazi Germany's sound economic principles of the 1930s. In a customer newsletter, the bank credited Hitler with reviving the German economy as other nations' economies slumped...
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks freely and carries a big stick. He has revolutionized Italy's perennially gray politics but drawn fire for his vast media holdings as well as for gaffes like a tasteless Nazi gibe directed at a German colleague and a knock on German tourists by one of his deputies. TIME's Jeff Israely talked with him on the eve of his visit with President Bush...
...CREATED PROBLEMS AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BY JOKINGLY REFERRING TO A GERMAN MEMBER AS "PERFECT" FOR THE ROLE OF A NAZI PRISON GUARD. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT TO ADOPT A MORE CAUTIOUS APPROACH...
...film Midnight Cowboy, which starred Dustin Hoffman as an ailing con man and Jon Voight as the naive cowboy of the title who becomes a gigolo to survive in New York City. Schlesinger's 1976 thriller Marathon Man, about a college student on the run from a former Nazi, also featured Hoffman. He said of the director: "Shakespeare said it best in Hamlet, 'We will never see the likes of him again...
...avoid after reunification. The government deliberately decoupled unresolved ownership questions from use of the property itself, which enabled large swaths of eastern Germany to be developed even as title to the real estate remained contested. And in a move to protect German companies from U.S. lawsuits relating to the Nazi era, the government in 2000 made a deal with Washington that involved setting up a €5 billion fund to pay outstanding Holocaust-related slave-labor claims in exchange for legal immunity from restitution demands. Indeed, the German ambassador in Washington, Wolfgang Ischinger, in January wrote to the New Jersey...