Word: weimar
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...people questioned said that today's Germans should feel no guilt about the war, and share no responsibility to rectify the Nazi's wrongs. This self-absolution, coupled with a growing hate for the West, especially the United States, and anti-Semitism, recreates the situation that culminated in the Weimar Republic's overthrow and the rise of Nazism...
Wherever he went, the reputation of "wizard" preceded Schacht. He had saved the Weimar Republic from the disastrous consequences of inflation, had helped Hitler build a superb war plant in debt-ridden Nazi Germany (he was acquitted of war crimes charges at Nürnberg). For his new patients, Dr. Schacht prescribed no miracle drugs, but time-tested, standard remedies. He warned Indonesia last year to work hard and attract foreign investors. He bluntly told the Iranians last month that they were "lazy," and repeated his injunction to work hard. Sometimes his pronouncements seemed a little hasty. ("I reached Teheran...
Then the convention elected Ollenhauer to succeed Schumacher as head of the party. A Socialist since his teens, Ollenhauer was born (1901) the son of a Magdeburg mason, and he came up the party ladder during Weimar Republic days. He fled from the Nazis, first to Prague, then to London, and returned home in September 1945. Pudgy, bespectacled, pipe-smoking Ollenhauer has little of Schumacher's tigerish fire, but he is just as stubborn...
...months later, his right arm was severed at the shoulder by a Russian machine-gun burst. He became an ardent Socialist, railing unheard at the "Kaiser's war." By the time he could get anyone to listen, as a brash Socialist Deputy in the moribund Weimar Republic, the enemy was Hitler. Schumacher told Goebbels in 1932: "The whole National Socialist movement is only a lasting appeal to all that is worst...
Bitterness. In 1948, his left leg became seriously diseased. It had to be amputated. But Schumacher rose from his sickbed to barnstorm Germany in the country's first free elections since the Weimar Republic. His program: all-out nationalism. His voice, stabbing and snarling, demanded return of the Saar (grabbed by France) and the lands east of the Oder (grabbed by Russia), demanded an end to reparations and occupation. The voters turned him down-by a narrow margin. The task of establishing a new German state "fell not to Socialist Kurt Schumacher but to conservative, commonsensical Christian Democrat Konrad...