Word: nazism
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According to him, no one was to blame for what happened in Germany. It just happened, and no one was responsible but "the times." Nazism was pretty much like anything else: "Perhaps all that can be done is to describe it as a phenomenon, as a byproduct of life, and like life to be immeasurable by any standard and equally shapeless." As for democracy, "I do not know what it is ... But I fear that Hit ler's assertion - that his ideological concept was the democratic concept - will prove a hard one to refute...
...seeks to impose a totalitarian government on the United States by membership . . . in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the Ku Klux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action by way of the formations of . . . conspiracies to advocate and to take steps in an attempt to replace our democratic form of government with a totalitarian state...
...government or who seeks to impose a totalitarian government on the United States by membership... in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the KuKlux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action by way of the formations of... conspiracies to advocate and to take steps in an attempt to replace our democratic form of government with a totalitarian state...
...naive enough to say as late as 1939: "I hate Communism, but it is founded on belief in the control of Government, including the economic system, by the people themselves. It is the very antithesis of Nazism." Many a liberal "prima donna" thought the same. Ickes, who died in 1952, lived long enough to learn otherwise...
...Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 60, Hungarian-born refugee from both Nazism and Communism, was named 1954 winner of the $1,000 Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association. His brilliant researches into what muscle is and how it works (TIME, July 4, 1949) "have led to new understanding of the basic physiology of the heart," said his citation...