Word: reich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are almost as many vows made on the White House lawn as there are blades of grass. But there were almost as many victims of the Holocaust, and when Carter promised to create a living memorial to the Jews killed by the Third Reich, he might as well have carved it in marble...
...right governs, the left thinks,' says a familiar French dictum. No longer. A vigorous group of right-wing thinkers is now challenging the left's longstanding intellectual hegemony, proclaiming ominous theories on race, genetics and inequality rarely heard since the dark days of the Third Reich. The rise of this bold "New Right" has ignited the liveliest political debate in France since the advent of the New Philosophers, a group of disillusioned leftists who launched a blistering attack on Marxist dogma two years...
...question will not go away. When the cattle cars with their human cargoes rumbled off for Auschwitz, where were the righteous in the Third Reich? Each of these three books seeks answers, and in sum they are heartening. Fritz Molden, himself a fighter in the Austrian resistance, puts it best in Exploding Star: "Where there are people who disrupt, destroy and torture there are also, beyond all doubt, others who help, heal and support...
Austria's role is puzzling. The graven newsreel image of the Anschluss-the day that Hitler forcibly joined Austria to the Reich- is one of jubilation: jackbooted, goose-stepping infantry welcomed by cascades of flowers and the joyous peal of church bells'. Vienna-born Walter Maass, who specializes in wartime history (The Netherlands at War, Assassination in Vienna), strives to explain the complexities behind that event, and Austria's increasingly reluctant role during the seven years of Nazi rule (1938-45) that followed. Country Without a Name (Austria was absorbed into Germany as an assemblage of Nazi...
...emergence of West Germany as a self-confident power has been a natural evolution?the product of an enlightened policy by the Western Allies after World War II that reinforced Teutonic diligence and determination. In 1945 Hitler's thousand-year Reich lay in ruins. Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf were reduced to jagged piles of debris. The Allies' "carpet" bombing had blighted the industrial heartland of the Ruhr Valley and the transportation facilities of the whole country. It was a country with millions of homeless refugees, without leadership, and with a heritage that had to be rebuilt from scratch...