Word: hitleritis
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When I was seven years old, I fled from a town near Prague with my mother, sisters and brothers. My eldest brother, just 15, was left behind to be a soldier in Hitler's army, like my father. During our escape to the West, I was almost left behind during a rest stop. I had to run to catch the truck. On our 14-day journey to Cologne, a black American soldier gave us a bar of chocolate; it was sweeter than anything I have ever had in my life. My father and brother were captured by the Soviets...
...Each year we all say, "Lest we forget," but I fear we have already forgotten. You may call me paranoid to think that farmers from a small American town could lead to such inhumanity as the Oklahoma bombing, but who would have thought a lowly, unsuccessful painter like Adolf Hitler could do what...
This country's militias and other extremist right-wing groups are more of a threat to democracy than Russia or China ever was. Listening to members of these organizations reminds me of Germany at the start of Hitler's rise to power. People who belong to such extremist groups would have been jailed if they were in any country...
...ARMY Fifty years and 27 million lives after the defeat of Hitler, the West says "Thanks...
...commander in an armored division, or what was left of it, somewhere on the eastern front. He had gone off to war at the age of 27, served as an infantryman during the blitzkrieg against France, and in 1941 was transferred to an armored unit in the east when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. We saw Father rarely, during brief furloughs and on medical leaves after he was wounded, the first time in 1942, then a year later at Kursk, during the largest tank battle of the war. We missed him, but that was the norm...