Word: swastika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunes & Nudes. From the day he first spotted a swastika, Grosz lashed out at the Nazis. His prophetic cartoons of Hitler's ends & means made him No. 1 on the Nazi list of "degenerate" artists. In 1932, Grosz skipped to the U.S. with his wife and two children...
Rare as a Swastika. The Dresden billboard incident points up only one of many direct and indirect methods the Russians have employed to give the SED maximum advantages over the other two parties, CDU and Liberal Democrats (LDP). Lampposts, streetcars, newspaper kiosks, billboards and public buildings scream with SED campaign posters throughout the Russian zone, but CDU and LDP posters are almost as rare as a swastika. In the Land of Saxony, the SED has a daily newspaper with a million circulation. The LDP organ, appearing thrice weekly, has 50,000 circulation and the CDU newspaper, with 35,000 circulation...
...TIME correspondent took his place at the beer table, "for two years I fought Americans. Now it seems strange to sit down at a table in the university yard and drink schnapps with one." "Na, Hans," laughed the others, drinking their brandy out of fancy glasses etched with a swastika, "don't get excited. If you on the West had half the experiences with Russians that we did, there'd be reason for tension. Here is an American newspaperman who wants to know what the few young Germans left are thinking. Well, let's tell...
...between Socialism and Communism as "the difference between an ordinary dog bite and hydrophobia." Nor did he have any more use for other brands of collectivism. Returning from Europe on a German ship soon after Hitler came to power, he was summoned to a ceremony at which the new swastika emblem was raised in place of the republican flag. When an officer asked him to salute, he replied: "I would as soon salute that diagram as the first proposition of Euclid...
...politicians and statesmen even. For this aim we shall offer what we hold dear: womanish traits of goodness and mildness. We shall become soldiers who fight, who pour blood, who kill. God . . . look into our hearts and Thou willst find love, enthusiasm, readiness for sacrifice. . . . Poland, freed from the swastika, has been captured by the hammer and sickle. Dachau and Buchenwald have been replaced by Siberian ice. . . . Poland will rise from the dead, so help us God! Amen...