Word: nazidom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actions. While more cynical generals like Gotthard Heinrici, commander of the Vistula Army Group, beat a retreat toward the American lines, Keitel went back to Berlin to sign the surrender document that he had never believed would be written. All around him the other evil men of Nazidom were taking the easy way out: Hitler was followed in suicide by Himmler, Goebbels and Goring...
Embarrassed West. Poland, which still harbors bitter suspicions of Germany, was impressed by the court's willingness to make this conscientious journey into the past. A doubting world has long since been convinced of the determination of most West Germans to redress the evil of Nazidom. Nevertheless, a fear remains that many of Hitler's villains may go scot-free.* Under the German penal code, the statute of limitation for murder runs out after 20 years. That means that no further prosecution of Nazi killers can be instituted after May 8, 1965, or 20 years after...
House Upon the Sand, a novel of savage ironies, belongs with the best of the literature on Nazidom. Written by a Lithuanian novelist who spent the war in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, it tells of a decent German aristocrat who turns into a Nazi killer with chilling ease. Messkirch, narrating the story of his own fall, is a well-to-do landowner in rural Germany. He takes pride in being a skeptic, a cut above the fanatical urban upstarts who are running the country. But in countless small ways, he betrays the weaknesses of character -the obtuseness, the occasional coarseness...
...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer. The gaudy, grisly supermen of Nazidom strut their Wagnerian stage once more in a historical chronicle beside which most historical novels seem puny...