Words at War: Headquarters Budapest / Nazis Go Underground / Simone

Words at War: Headquarters Budapest / Nazis Go Underground / Simone – Nazi Germany, also known as the Third Reich, is the common name for Germany when it was a totalitarian state ruled by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). On 30 January 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, quickly eliminating all opposition to rule as sole leader. The state idolized Hitler as its Führer (“leader”), centralizing all power in his hands. Historians have emphasized the hypnotic effect of his rhetoric on large audiences, and of his eyes in small groups. Kessel writes, “Overwhelmingly…Germans speak with mystification of Hitler’s ‘hypnotic’ appeal…”[4] Under the “leader principle”, the Führer’s word was above all other laws. Top officials reported to Hitler and followed his policies, but they had considerable autonomy. The government was not a coordinated, cooperating body, but rather a collection of factions struggling to amass power and gain favor with the Führer.[5] In the midst of the Great Depression, the Nazi government restored prosperity and ended mass unemployment using heavy military spending and a mixed economy of free-market and central-planning practices.[6] Extensive public works were undertaken, including the construction of the Autobahns. The return to prosperity gave the regime enormous popularity; the suppression of all opposition made Hitler’s rule mostly unchallenged. Racism, especially antisemitism, was a main tenet of society in Nazi Germany. The Gestapo (secret state police) and SS under Heinrich …

U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Florida (Feb. 9)

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9 — Micrus Design Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,366,699) developed by Oscar Jimenez, Coral Gables, Fla., Roberto Echarri, Miami, and Kenneth Verduin, Coral Springs, Fla., for a "double helix reinforced catheter." …. The …
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