Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, at the White House last week, the President dealt with the gravest European crisis since 1917 through the Department of State. To Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria, the President's only public reference was an indirect one at a press conference. Asked whether he had signed the Czechoslovakian Trade Treaty, in which Austria is mentioned on the list of most favored nations, the President said he had signed it, and that legally-if there was such a thing as international law-he had not at the time been officially informed by Austria that it had ceased...
Intuitive Adolf Hitler is feminine in never wanting a fight, but only victory. It would hardly have occurred to a masculine dictator, such as Mussolini, simply to ask the Czechoslovakian Government through intermediaries last week to tear up their military alliance with the Soviet Government, yet this was just what the Führer did, according to officials at Prague...
Veteran Berlin correspondents declared they had never before seen Adolf Hitler and the 741 members of the German Reichstag in quite such an electric state of emotion as last week. For the first time since 1866 Austrian officials had their place with the Germans. Austria, now a German province, sent her Governor (not Chancellor) Arthur Seyss-Inquart to Berlin by air, dressed in the uniform of one of Dictator Hitler's Elite Guard. Austrian-born Herr Hitler was greeted by Reichstag President Göring with the words: "You conquered Austria not with bloody use of force but with...
...Baiting. Virtually all Jewish department stores, cafés and shops were taken over by Nazis. Hapless Jews were set to work scrubbing Fatherland Front posters off lampposts, Schuschnigg plebiscite slogans off sidewalks. Leering young Nazis jibed, "Who has found work for Jews? Adolf Hitler!" When Jews timidly protested against over 100 unwarranted seizures of their property by ruffians in Nazi uniforms, Nazi police officials explained that persons carrying on such unauthorized expropriations were "Communists who in some manner had managed to get themselves disguised in Nazi uniforms." The whole stock of two large department stores had been expropriated meanwhile...
...electrical transcription every half-hour or so, asking Austrians not to resist the invading German Army, saying the troops of the Führer would bring "happiness." All he had to do was avoid assassination by anti-Nazis before the arrival of the German Army and Adolf Hitler...