Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the war did the average German begin to hear of this wraith. He replaced Hess as Deputy Führer; his signature was required on all laws. He slithered about, watching generals and party leaders at work, and a disapproving word from him could mean death. Next to Hitler and Himmler, he was the most powerful man in all Germany...
Bunker Voice. As the end drew near, Bormann's voice came over . the radio from Hitler's bunker in Berlin, broadcasting orders and proclamations. When the Russians reached the bunker, Bormann was gone. Some Nazis claimed that he had died leading a last effort to break free...
Europe's great Protestant theologian is Calvinist Karl Earth. Expelled from Bonn University in 1935 for refusing to take the Hitler oath of allegiance, he has been lecturing at Basel University in his native Switzerland. He leaves this month to lecture at the Russian-sponsored University of Berlin. Sometimes called "a theologian's theologian," neo-orthodox, nonhumanist Earth has exerted great influence in both Europe and America; when he speaks, churchmen listen...
...anti-Nazi Barth prophesied that after Hitler had finished with the German church, "efforts to recapture the [religious] interest of the new godless Germany will have to be those of a missionary." Last Fall, Churchman Barth went back to Germany to see for himself. He set out with misgivings, returned somewhat reassured to announce his conclusions before a jampacked audience in Zurich...
...nucleus Barth saw hope for the rebirth of German Christianity. The new, united Evangelical Church, formed last August at the Treysa conference, was a good beginning. But Calvinist Barth looked with less favor on those conservative churchmen who were more interested in getting back to the good old pre-Hitler days by safeguarding hierarchical arrangements and hoary institutions. German churches, he said, could retain their freedom in the new social democracy not by turning back to the past, but by seeking to safeguard the values of the individual within the community...