Word: canossa
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first centuries had no opportunity for anything but separation from the state. But with the coming of the Middle Ages the church adopted what Author Stokes calls the "Ecclesiastical Domination plan," which reached its height with Emperor Henry IV's famed barefoot repentance before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa...
...charging the Germans with the responsibility for Hitler's crimes . . . No one demands a beating of the breasts or a scene at Canossa.* But what I do expect is an end to the arguments of those Germans who would not only deny their own guilt, but also seek to place the responsibility for the consequences of that guilt exclusively upon the shortcomings of other peoples ... I want you to know that such utterances . . . call to mind what people are now disposed to forget, that is, the amazing docility and acquiescence of the greater part of the German population toward...