Word: hitlerized
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...beginning of May 1945 it was clear to even the most zealous of Hitler's followers that his "Thousand Year Reich" was doomed. The Fuhrer was dead. Berlin had fallen to the Red Army, and from west and east the Allies were sweeping into the German heartland. Some 4 million refugees from the eastern regions of the country were on the move toward the west. Terrified by the tales of rape and pillage that had accompanied the advance of Soviet forces, they were trying to find safety behind American and British lines. The horror stories, told and retold and retold...
Fifty years later, the Soviets who beat Hitler are coming to the end of lives as hard as any in a hard century. Soon enough, they will have peace. Their children will struggle on against an enemy they cannot even quite describe. --With reporting by Sally B. Donnelly/ Kiev and Constance Richards/Nizhni Novgorod
Mailer's accomplishment--and it is, after all, the purpose he set for himself--is to turn Oswald, that historical smudge, into a troubled, touching human being, rounded and vulnerable and ultimately, Mailer thinks, fatally grandiose: a nut case and nonentity with Hitler-scale dreams. There is perverse American poignancy in the newlyweds' Minsk days, when Lee dreamed of having a son, to be named David, who would grow up to be President...
...This is why Hitler felt he was doing the world a favor," he said...
...world cannot protect us from those who have been "bent" enough to murder. Our only hope is to stop the bending of human lives by one of the most destructive forces on earth: abject poverty. Every day poverty kills innocent children at many times the rate of Hitler's death camps and permanently disables 10 for each one who dies. Children and adults alike are warped in this overlooked carnage...