Word: pro-nazi
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...Internationale Fruhschoppen, a weekly program that brought journalists together to discuss current events. Last week the old standby was gone. It had been canceled because Host Werner Hofer, 74, perhaps West Germany's best-known media personality, was forced to resign over charges that he had shown pro-Nazi sympathies during World...
Former Yale Sterling Professor of Humanities Paul de Man, who is renowned for originating the theory of deconstructionism, published articles in 1941 and 1942 in the pro-Nazi newspaper Le Soir, congratulating Western intellectuals for protecting literature from the influence of Jews...
DIED. Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 67, former Prime Minister and President of South Africa, known as a stern enforcer of apartheid; of a pulmonary embolism; in Tygerberg. Interned during World War II for membership in a pro-Nazi movement, Vorster was named Justice Minister in 1961 and imposed such policies as "banning," a form of house arrest, and detention of dissidents without trial. Elected Prime Minister after the 1966 assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, Vorster held sway for 13 tumultuous years, his racist government increasingly opposed by riots at home and pressure from abroad. He resigned as Prime Minister...
DIED. Oetje John Rogge, 77, former Assistant U.S. Attorney General who in 1940 won convictions that helped break up the political machine of former Louisiana Governor Huey Long, and who three years later unsuccessfully sought to convict 33 pro-Nazi Americans of sedition; of cancer; in New York City. Rogge was dismissed by Attorney General Tom Clark in 1946 for making public a report that accused 24 Congressmen of collaborating with a Nazi agent...
...child Nelly, growing up in a pro-Nazi family, joins the Hitler Youth organization as a matter of course. Her religion class in school emphasizes racial purity, and the burning of the synagogue on her street evokes not pity but rather fear of alien beings. Neither does the euthanasia program provoke an outcry from the child or the parents, even when it claims the life of Nelly's feeble-minded Aunt Dottie. As Wolf makes clear, a child's morality is wholly dependent on that of the parents. A child cannot make moral judgements about the actions of her world...