Word: nazis
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...decades have gone by since Germany's great victory in World War II. It is 1964, and a vassal Germanic empire unites Europe from England almost to the Urals. It's true that war has sputtered on endlessly against what remains of the Soviet Union and that anti-Nazi terrorists at home have provoked repeated crackdowns. Still, why does the Fatherland seem shabby and dispirited...
...group of young Englishmen from Liverpool who are playing to packed audiences of German youths in Hamburg. But Adolf Hitler is still hale, for a man of 75; and in the U.S., President Joseph Kennedy, also 75, is planning a state visit to Berlin to quiet rumors of supposed Nazi human-rights violations against Jews during the war. His trip will make clear the solidly anti-Semitic, pro-German slant of American neutrality...
...Soviet Union, another well-done, shadowed thriller about an honest cop operating within a malign bureaucracy. But Harris' narrative is more unsettling because it erodes our solid past and shows our present to be less than inevitable. His brooding, brown-and-black setting of a victorious Nazi regime is believable and troubling, the stuff of long nights of little sleep...
...Elvis-type problem it wasn't. With President Kurt Waldheim leaving office, nobody suggested that Austrians vote between the young Waldheim (as Nazi officer) and the old, discredited one. Bureaucrats chose the current Waldheim, though some would have preferred no stamp...
While still in high school, Milosevic met his wife, the ambitious and intense Mirjana Markovic, whose family ranked among the most prominent communists in Serbia. When she was only a year old, her mother was killed by Tito's partisans after revealing information about underground communists to Nazi-backed police in Belgrade. Today Mirjana remains a powerful member of the hard-line League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia, which enjoys strong support within the army. She wields considerable influence over her husband. She zealously safeguards him by watching for any signs of disloyalty, real or imagined...