The "king of the empire of thought" was not responsible, she decided, for his Nazi actions; he had simply fallen under the influence of his despicable wife.

Nevertheless, it became increasingly apparent that with the Nazi actions, no Jew was likely to secure a place on the German team.

In the 1950's and 60's in particular, German courts reaffirmed Nazi judicial actions, strengthening suppositions that many judges during the period were protecting their own shadowy pasts under Hitler.

Due to Nazi actions against the Catholic Church, it was thought prudent to found a study house in a neutral state to provide for the formation of German and Swiss clerics.

Before the war, they could not possibly have avoided noticing Nazi actions against their German neighbors who were Jewish.

Although expellees and their descendants were active in West German politics, the prevailing political climate within West Germany was that of atonement for Nazi actions.

But even Lanzmann makes an interesting case for silence--he believes that causal explanations of Nazi actions belie their deep inexplicability.

Zbigniew Brzezinski has estimated that 800,000 Gypsies died as a result of Nazi actions.

Nazi actions included the formation of the multitasking Condor Legion, while German efforts to move the Army of Africa to mainland Spain proved successful in the war's early stages.