Word: nazism
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...Grant and beg forgiveness"-a quote from the letter sent by Polish prelates last fall inviting German bishops to Czestochowa in a gesture of reconciliation. As an added touch, the government last week opened in Warsaw The Deputy, the Rolf Hochhuth play that attacks Pius XII for not fighting Nazism...
...poised across the English Channel from Britain, American churchmen had mixed feelings about U.S. entry into the war. One of the most outspoken advocates of the Allied cause was Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, a onetime pacifist who had come to see that stance as "utopianism" in the face of Nazism's threat to Western civilization. With a group of like-minded thinkers, Niebuhr founded a biweekly journal of Christian opinion to oppose the prevailing pacifism of church leaders and to relate the Gospel message to problems of war and peace...
...show life from a different perspective, so Grass's Oskar, a moral hunchback who reaches his third year and refuses to grow any more, sees the world from chair level. There are striking parallels, too, between writer and painter. Both were born in the decade that spawned Nazism, both learned their ABCs in Hitler schools, both burst on the cultural scene in 1959 to become symbols of Germany's postwar conscience. Both, too, have been remarkably productive, Grass with nine published works, Antes with an astonishing 14 one-man shows in a scant three years...
Kaltenborn had more firm opinions on more topics than any other commentator, and he delivered them with complete self-assurance. He was often profoundly right, especially in his early diagnosis of the dangers of Nazism. He could also be spectacularly wrong. In the close 1948 presidential election, which tried the stamina of most pundits, he kept insisting, long after it was prudent, that Tom Dewey would win by an "overwhelming vote." Later Truman enjoyed imitating H.V.'s commentary in H.V.'s voice. Kaltenborn did not resent it; he mimicked Truman mimicking...
...Palestine. He was Judaism's first ecumenist, who revered Jesus as much as a Jew might, and gently, unpolemically defined the gap that only God could bridge between the two types of Biblical faith. A leader of German Judaism until he went to Palestine in 1938, Buber fought Nazism with patriarchal dignity; yet he accepted an award from a German university a few years after the war and begged Israel not to execute Adolf Eichmann. Thus last week when this man of belief and love died in Jerusalem at the age of 87, he was mourned...