Word: guenter
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...Catholic Church do much better. In a new book called The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany, Political Scientist Guenter Lewy of the Univer sity of Massachusetts argues persuasively that the opposition of the bishops to Hitler was limited to occasional protests against his violations of the concordat with the Vatican. "At no time," he concludes, "did the Church challenge the legitimacy of the Nazi regime or give her explicit or implicit approval to the various attempts to bring about its downfall. While thousands of anti-Nazis were beaten to a pulp in concentration camps, the Church talked of supporting...
...penetration that Allied intelligence agencies have made at many levels of all the Communist espionage groups. Other tips come from the steady stream of defectors to the West; most are small fry, but now and then a big fish comes along. Only last week, the West Germans disclosed that Guenter Maennel, a senior official of East Berlin's HVA, had recently sneaked across the boundary, bringing with him details of his espionage unit in East Berlin as well as the names of 14 Communist agents in Africa, Scandinavia and the Middle East...