Word: schutzstaffel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paroled on Dec. 19, 1924, Hitler spent the next five years reinvigorating the Nazi Party, exploiting Weimar democracy to bring down the Republic. The party's members were tireless, cajoling, exhorting, running for local offices, gathering about them a brutal elite guard called the Schutzstaffel, or SS. During this period an American journalist, Louis Lochner, watched the Nazi leader addressing students at Berlin University. "I came away from that meeting," he reported, "wondering how a man . . . who ranted and fumed and stamped could so impress young intellectuals. Of all people, I thought, they should have detected the palpable flaws...
...delivered "Secret Santa" gift apparently evoked images of the Nazi Schutzstaffel in the mind of Uri Almagor a Hebrew University professor of sociology and social anthropology living in Adams this fall...