Word: weimar
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Orchids for Dinner. Einstein was happy in Germany under the Weimar Republic. He supported 100 poor families in Berlin, sailed his boat and played the violin. But when Hitler came, Einstein the Jew was badgered by the Brownshirts and finally driven into exile. He was offered a lifetime post in the cloistered School for Advanced Studies, and in 1933 he took up residence in Princeton. Quickly and unwillingly, he became a living legend...
Presumably this deal was all set. All that remained was Bundestag approval, and never in the history of the Republic -Federal or Weimar-had the Lower House failed to elect the Speaker right off, by "acclamation...
Baron Konstantin von Neurath, fluent linguist and brilliant diplomatist, had suavely served the Weimar Republic as Foreign Minister, then without apparent twinge of conscience served Hitler. In 1941 he finally resigned as Hitler's "Protector" of Bohemia-Moravia, but by then he had gone too far; the verdict at Nürnberg in 1946 was: "For carrying out and assuming responsibility for the execution of the foreign policy of the Nazi conspirators, and authorizing, directing and taking part in war crimes and crimes against humanity-fifteen years' imprisonment...
...unchangeable longing for a real pacification of Europe,' and express their willingness to conclude a non-aggression pact with France and Belgium." The real difference between a Locarno pact then and now is that Locarno was a compact between men of good will-a pact with the democratic Weimar Republic of Germany, not with the Germany of Hitler. A Locarno pact now-with Malenkov and Mao-would be like a pact with Hitler. A promise to defend a wolf if he is attacked by the sheep means little to the wolf. And it just confuses the sheep about...
...bullyboy in the paramilitary nationalist Freikorps, and as a poison-pen rightist journalist, Dertinger helped kill off the democratic Weimar Republic. When Hitler came in, he became an official in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, with a big picture of Von Ribbentrop on his desk. Then when the Russians arrived, Georg confided to a friend, "I will walk the tightrope over Communism as surely as I did over Naziism...