Word: nazism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject -- Curator McShine has done a good job of setting out, in samples rather than full packages (55 artists are represented), the peculiar mix of political intelligence, sharp irony, antic humor, mythic yearnings, brusque self-doubt and curiously facile pictorial effects that helped define Berlin's cultural temper before Nazism and that came back, with many variations, after...
Almost alone among Germans, von Weizsacker has argued that Nazism is something that the world has a duty to remember, he says...
Prosecutors, Jewish leaders, and a spectrum of Frenchmen react heatedly to that line of defense. They say Verges wants to "banalise" Nazism--reduce it to the commonplace...
Every generation has its crisis. In the 1940's it was World War II--the senseless brutality of Nazism and the deaths of innocent millions; in the 60s, Vietnam, a trauma from which we have yet to completely recover. Today, however, we face a more cunning, fatal foe, a silent malaise that strikes our very souls. I am talking, of course, of the crisis of post-modernism...
This spirit of tolerance for Nazism has spread to other European countries as well. In Austria, where Hitler was born, Jorg Haider, the leader of the Liberal Party, earned the label "Hitler's kid" for some of his positions. Thanks to this, Haider--who holds land confiscated from Jews before the war--garnered 10 percent of the electoral votes during the recent elections...