Word: streicher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gallic Streicher or an urban Schweitzer? His books illustrate rather than resolve the paradox. When Journey to the End of the Night detonated on the French literary scene in 1932 (there were riots when it did not receive that year's Prix Goncourt), it was like an explosion of excrement. The doctor who had a profound vocation for healing wrote of his pitiable patients with derision and rage. If he was antiSemitic, he also detested Christians...
...Streicher would have taken more drastic measures had he known what Ludwig Erhard was up to at the time: he turned out a lengthy analysis of steps to rebuild the German economy, based on the frank premise of Germany's total defeat. Although Erhard sent copies to friends, the Nazis never got wise. One copy went to Dr. Karl Goerdeler, once mayor of Leipzig and then deeply involved in the plot on Hitler's life and in planning a postwar German government. After Goerdeler was arrested, he smuggled word about Erhard from his prison cell to friends outside...
...staff of 80. But the war had begun, and Niirnberg's Gauleiter, the notorious Julius Streicher, insisted that Erhard join a Nazi labor organization; Erhard refused, and was fired...
Message from Prison. Erhard promptly formed his own research group, soon had dozens of sponsors for new projects. But he was constantly under the shadow of Hitler's men. Streicher kept muttering, "That's a nest that we'll have to clean out one of these days...
Died. The Rev. Henry F. Gerecke, 68, Lutheran minister and longtime Protestant chaplain to several penal institutions who served as a chaplain at the Nürnberg war crimes trials after World War II, won the affection and trust of several high-ranking Nazi prisoners (among them: Julius Streicher, General Alfred Jodl, Dr. Hans Frank), prayed at the execution of six of the convicted and was disappointed when Hermann Göring, who he thought had made a '"sincere" return to religion, preferred a cyanide of potassium capsule to his final ministrations; of a heart attack; in Chester...