Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a book about a "good" Nazi. Dr. Gerhard Wolf saved many lives at the risk of his own, and he failed to invoke the regime's machinery of terror although his duty demanded...
...Wolf was a career diplomat who routinely joined the Nazi Party and, in 1940, was posted as consul to Florence. At the time, the city seemed a diplomatic backwater, ideal for a man whom one of his later beneficiaries described as "reserved, even lackadaisical." It was only when Italy began to fall apart militarily and the Germans came in to hold the country that the mild, art-loving consul began to show his true fiber...
Florentine Jews who had managed to survive under Mussolini were suddenly in mortal danger. And to Hermann Goring and other shrewd predators, the wealth of Florentine art was irresistible. Long before the Allies approached the city, Wolf had assigned himself three dangerous tasks: to save lives, to prevent the plunder of the city's art, and to keep Florence from assault by having it declared an open city...
...feel compelled to comment on the "disciple family." I would no sooner "save the hoot owl" with my family than I would "collect thunder eggs." And furthermore, my parents would not "hire a wolf to howl at the door" in order to have a common crisis around which the family can rally. If familial solidarity is dependent upon crises and thunder eggs, then I am all for a broken home. The very values for which the disciple family stands are, essentially, those values that the youth of today is intent upon rejecting. The value judgment that girls are not given...
...German Shepherd instinctively mistrusts strangers, and if provoked by them, will develop a ferocity hardly ever seen in other canine varieties. There is no doubt, despite all that has been written and said to the contrary, that the wolf did enter into the ancestry of the breed, and certain of that animal's characteristics are still found in its makeup, both mental and physical...