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...consequences of World War II were also ambiguous. It destroyed the Third Reich and the Empire of the Rising Sun, but it made possible Stalin's conquest of Eastern Europe and Mao's triumph in China...
...policy is now German policy," commented Belgrade's state-run TV, repeating the official Serbian accusation that the Germany of today is a reincarnation of Hitler's Third Reich, which, in a new march to conquest, is trying to break up Yugoslavia. "The main problem with recognition," said Wolfgang Biermann, a foreign policy analyst for the Social Democrats in Bonn, "is that it is the Germans who are pushing it. Considering Germany's history in Yugoslavia, the Serbs are convinced that Germany is splitting up their state again. That escalates the conflict." In a number of capitals there was discomfort...
...First Amendment). Duke is as much a presidential candidate as non-entity Larry Agran, who spoke at the K-School earlier this year, the argument goes. If only someone had invited Hitler to the K-School Forum in 1932 then maybe we'd still be dealing with the Second Reich instead of the Fourth...
Unsurprisingly, these Hitler apologists have recently focused their propaganda efforts on college campuses, looking to deceive a new generation that never saw the Third Reich firsthand. This fall, college newspapers across the country received a full-page advertisement--looking suspiciously like a news feature--explaining how the PC thought police was preventing academic debate about the Holocaust's non-existence, how the photographs, documents and eyewitness accounts proving the obvious in fact prove nothing, how "Zionists and others in the Jewish community" whose "purpose was to drum up world sympathy and political and financial support for Jewish causes...
...resistance movements, however, received spectacular encouragement from the Allied strategic bombings of Germany. The British, still furious about the Luftwaffe's indiscriminate attacks on London and such targets as Coventry and Liverpool in the war's early days, launched gigantic carpet bombings of the Third Reich's industrial and urban centers. In May 1942 the R.A.F. sent the first 1,000-bomber mission over Germany, pulverizing 300 acres of central Cologne. The head of the bomber command, Air Marshal Arthur ("Bomber") Harris, told his men that if their mission succeeded, "the most shattering and devastating blow will have been delivered...