Word: swastika
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost his job as a factory manager; young Adolf had to quit college to get a job as a salesman. Like other middle-class youths with a grievance, Adolf Eichmann turned fascist. In Germany on business trips, he thrilled to the sight of brown-shirted Storm Troopers marching beneath swastika banners, and listened avidly to the Munich ravings of another product of Linz, Adolf Hitler. In 1932, when he was 26, Eichmann made the final step: he joined the Nazi Party, which was then illegal in Austria. It cost him his job, and one day the police knocked...
...ambassador also denied reports that there are any significant neo-Nazi or anti-Semitic movements now in Germany. The recent "Swastika epedemic," he said, had little political motivation...
...crowd of 500 anti-pickets, composed mainly of refugees from Nazi concentration camps, college students, and labor unionists, sent up a loud yell and descended on the khaki-uniformed men wearing swastika arm bands as they emerged from a car near the theatre...
Mark Mirsky is another writer whose work could have been represented more plentifully. Shkootz is an anecdote about a rabbi who must punish a little boy who scribbled a swastika on the Sunday School wall. Mirsky's prose is full of fire and yet maintains a reserved dignity. Only once does the writing seem to go out of control, for I don't understand the important passage explaining the rabbi's cry of "Shkootzim, shkootzim" at the children who had perpetrated the evil deed...
...heavily armed surface vessel well disguised as a merchantman. The raider, the Atlantis, flies whatever flag is convenient, and carries its sham to the point of decking seamen out as female passengers-wigs, parasols and all. When a target is sighted, the Atlantis steams close by, runs up the swastika and lowers the false packing cases which hide its guns. The raider's captain, played by Van Heflin, is a gentleman who, in his student days, rowed against Cambridge, and he tries his best to fight a decent...