Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only Göring was absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were the small fry, like Wilhelm Weber, a radio speaker, Leonhard Reindl, an office clerk, and jolly, buxom Maria Henle, the beer hall's cashier, in the old days a gay waitress who called the boys Adolf, Rudolf, Heinrich and Hermann, and often bragged about splashing beer in the faces of the best of them...
...been announced that the evening's speech would be delivered by Herr Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. But at 8:04, Adolf Hitler took the rostrum. Traditionally the annual beer-hall speech has been secret; but this time it was broadcast. For 57 minutes Herr Hitler let them have it (see p. 22). At 9:01 he stepped down from the rostrum and briefly passed among his followers. Usually on these occasions he has sat down to sip beer and swap yarns until wee hours, but this time he left the hall after just nine minutes. With...
...Then [9:21, exactly eleven minutes after Adolf Hitler left] a muffled detonation and shattering glass! There were several hysterical screams. The force of the explosion hurled me against a table. A few seconds of silence and darkness; then in the dim light of a couple of bulbs which remained intact, I saw the first persons stagger through a door. They were covered with dust...
Whatever the answer, one of a pair of alternatives was inescapable: Either the famed German secret police made a bad slip, or somebody fairly close to Adolf Hitler wants him dead...
...direct answer to Nazi hopes that the narrow escape would make Adolf Hitler better loved, some Berlin hater winged a brick through the plate-glass window of Hitler's favorite, official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Herr Hitler was all dressed up in luck last week. The brick did not touch the big portrait of the Führer in the window...