Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Andre François-Poncet, former French Ambassador to Germany and now to Italy, went to the Bavarian Alps last October to take leave of Führer Adolf Hitler, he thought he was expected at the familiar Berghof, the Führer's well-known mountain chalet near Berchtesgaden. Not far from the Berghof, however, the driver took a different road, the car began to ascend a highway winding five miles up a steep mountain. Soon the highway became a mere shelf on the side of the mountain. Suddenly the road ended before two big bronze doors...
...Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has earned its author an estimated $3,120,000 in royalties. Some $3,000,000 has come from Germany, where the volume is a "must" for every bookshelf, but there have also been respectable sales among Palestine Arabs, in Italy and Rebel Spain and small sales in Scandinavia, Britain...
...Adolf Hitler wrote his inflammatory testament in 1924-26, when he was an irresponsible rabble-rouser. When he became chief of State, Mein Kampf became something of a diplomatic embarrassment. Its many German editions have been somewhat toned down. Blasts against Italy for subjugating Austrians in the Italian Tyrol were eliminated when the Rome-Berlin axis was formed. More recently it was promised that blasts against France would be withdrawn...
...most peaceful declared war in the world.* It is also probably the most one-sided in history. Despite this disparity, Liechtenstein is one little slice or territorial pie with plenty of German raisins in it (over 99% of its population ot 10,000 are of German origin) for which Adolf Hitler has not yet developed an appetite...
...admits gloomily, Germans echoed the sentiment of her hotel maid, who gave thanks that "we Germans have Adolf Hitler sent by God to help us." But by the next year Germans had begun talking in words that were oblique and ambiguous. They sang more than they cheered; they read new symbolical meanings in the little literature left to them. Germans, decided Nora Waln, were developing a resilience to Hitler as cunning as that of Chinese peasants...