Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JULY 20 is one of West Germany's most important national holidays. It marks the date of an attempt on the life of Adolf Hitler by a group of Army commanders in 1944. The attempt, of course, was unsuccessful and as a result hundreds of high ranking Germans were executed by a badly shaken Hitler...
...celebrations to honor those men who dared to take a stand against the Nazis. The Germans look to it as a small bright light in a black past. Even that light is somewhat dim, however, for as any student of the period knows the attempt on the life of Hitler was motivated by the fact that he was losing the war, not by moral opposition...
...Germans like to celebrate and need heroes, perhaps more than any other people, and they cherish the chance to cheer. More than that the July 20 celebration gives them an opportunity to show the world that there were Germans who opposed Hitler and that modern Germans stand on the side of that opposition...
...substandard housing" makes rotting slums appear more livable or inevitable to some people, then their view of American cities has been distorted and their ability to assess the significance of poverty has been reduced. Perhaps the most chilling example of euphemism's destructive power took place in Hitler's Germany. The wholesale corruption of the language under Nazism, notes Critic George Steiner, is symbolized by the phrase endgültige Lösung (final solution), which "came to signify the death of 6,000,000 human beings in gas ovens...
Each setback in the war brought the same reaction from Hitler: "We can only go forward. The bridges behind us are broken." The Führer belabored his generals openly as "notorious liars as well as notorious cowards," and took charge of the war himself. He refused to allow Speer to build jet fighters to defend Germany against Allied aircraft, wanted jet bombers instead to attack the enemy. He persuaded Speer to develop the V-2 rocket. "It was probably one of the greatest errors I made," Speer writes. "We should have concentrated our efforts on the production...