Word: ss
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Buchanan pushed hard for Reagan to support the contras in Nicaragua, and for the President to visit the military cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, despite calls by Jewish groups for Reagan to cancel the visit because of the presence of Waffen SS graves. Buchanan's outspokenness on the subject caused his star to fall, and he left the Administration in 1987, flirting with the idea of running his own insurrectionary campaign for the White House. He got into hot water again with Jewish groups in 1990 after he questioned President Bush's motives in the Persian Gulf War. "There are only...
Sannwald was a visiting fellow at the Divinity School from 1924 to 1925, before being killed on the Russian front clad in the uniform of Hitler's SS troops...
...abandon any pretense of respecting the authority of the Labor government. Rabin the traitor--not only to the Jewish state but to Jewish history and the Jewish God--became a virtual trope of radical rightist rhetoric. At a recent anti-peace rally, a manakin of Rabin, clad in an SS uniform, was hanged in effigy. The rhetoric on the Israeli extreme right has been so strident and so vicious of late that it is difficult to construe the murder as anything but the direct outgrowth of an increasingly poisonous political culture...
...Protracted quotes from Sereny's interviews, while fascinating in their own right, lead to a wobbly, repetitive narrative that often lurches down bootless byways. A meeting with a Swedish diplomat, for example, provides Sereny with the excuse for a four-page diversion on Kurt Gerstein, the conscience-stricken SS lieutenant who tried to tell the world about death-camp gassings he had witnessed. Gerstein's saga has been told better elsewhere...
...addition to comparing Scott Singer to Jefferson Davis, the Society has linked Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 to Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke and Visiting Lecturer George F. Will to SS Reichsfuchrer Heinrich Himmler...