Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twisted mind, he believes it improper for them to see him in prison. So Hess spent a typical day, walking alone in the garden and feeding the few birds that alight there. Had history taken a different turn, he might have enjoyed the company of another birthday celebrator. Adolf Hitler would have been 80 last week...
Would the same professors have maintained, for example, that Adolf Hitler had the right to teach in German universities that Jews were inferior and should be exterminated? Where does one draw the line between human dignity and integrity and "academic freedom...
...intended to intimidate the Israeli government, and the Arab commando attacks on El Al's jets have precisely the same aim. Israel, a master of the extralegal reprisal (the Beirut airport raid), has also excelled in long-range kidnaping, as in the classic case of Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann, whom Israeli agents spirited out of Argentina in 1960. Former Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe still sits in an Algerian jail, caught in a mid-air kidnaping in 1967. Such is the climate of the times that fifteen planes have been hijacked to Cuba so far this year...
...recent years, at least 50 regional-minded organizations called senas (armies) have sprung up across India. The most potent of these is Bombay's Shiv Sena, formed in 1966 by a hot-tempered political cartoonist named Bal Thackeray.* A fierce anti-Communist who admits to an admiration for Adolf Hitler's nation-building abilities, Thackeray emerged as a political force in 1967, when he and his followers engineered the defeat of Krishna Menon's bid for re-election to Parliament. Since that time, Thackeray has fought hard to obtain a better break for the natives of Maharashtra...
...Leningrad and its people. Much of the background that he feels called upon to paint in deals with the city's illustrious history as St. Petersburg (Russia's capital until the honor was ceded to Moscow in 1918) and its cosmopolitan, cultural effervescence, which stirred not only Adolf Hitler's ire but the enduring suspicions of a xenophobic Georgian peasant, Joseph Stalin. The Paris of the Baltic, the city of Pushkin and Dostoevsky, Leningrad stood, in Salisbury's words, as "the invisible barrier between the end of Russia and the beginning of Europe...