Word: scapegoat
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Felix Mendelssohn, the Nazi's No. 1 musical scapegoat, was back in open favor in Germany. In Munich his music led the program of the first symphony concert played in U.S.-occupied Germany. BBC reported meantime that records of both Mendelssohn and Offenbach (also blacklisted) had been found at Hitler's Berchtesgaden hideaway...
...siding with the Anglo-Americans.' . . . International harmony returns with the decline of France and perhaps this decline was the price paid for it. We personally think that Iphigenia was not exactly in favor of being sacrificed and we are not so angelic as to rejoice in being the scapegoat of this international embrace...
...wear. Its colors (e.g., Eton's light blue line on black, Harrow's dark blue with white bands) are often based on the heraldic shield of the founder. As ,a symbol of Toryism, the Old School Tie fell into disrepute a decade ago, was later made a scapegoat for Britain's failure to prepare for war. It has also figured in many a feeble Britticism. Sample: a young Etonian, meeting a shabby fellow wearing a very frayed Old Etonian tie, asks, "Why are you wearing an Old Etonian tie?" The reply: "Because I can't afford...
...votes. The Nazis fought Communism with the weapons of Communism. To oppose the Communist troops (Red Front Fighters), the Nazis used the Brown Shirts. In place of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Nazis offered the dictatorship of the Nazi Party. In place of Bolshevism's scapegoat, the bourgeois, the Nazis offered the Jew. In place of internationalism, the Nazis offered fanatical German nationalism. In place of one dominating class (the proletariat), the Nazis offered the people (Volk...
...Germany at the time of the famed Reichstag fire trial in 1933, and the Nazis tried to make him a scapegoat, along with dullard Marinus Van der Lubbe and German Communist Ernst Torgler. But they found Dimitroff too hot to handle. The flimsy case against him collapsed. Once again Moscow intervened, conferred Russian citizenship on the Bulgarian and obtained his release, then sent a plane to whisk him to his new home. He was hailed as a hero. Lenin's widow and sister sent him flowers. "I am a soldier of the revolution," Dimitroff said, "and will fight where...