Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long and devious career foxy old Franz von Papen has been frequently hunted. In 1932, when he was Germany's Chancellor, a suspicious-looking Mrs. Paul Budde was arrested in the Chancellery with a twelve-inch dagger concealed on her person. In 1934 Papen was on Adolf Hitler's purge list, but was saved by German Army guards sent to his home by the late General Werner von Fritsch. By 1935 Papen had proved his usefulness to Adolf Hitler as Minister to Austria, but Austrian Nazis tried several times to obliterate the Minister. In 1937 Papen...
...trade unions, hated Marxism, believed that if Germany did not become mighty she would be ruined by international finance. In March 1918, he gathered 40 Germans into a Munich beer hall, formed the Committee of Independent Workmen. The next year they called themselves the German Workers' Party and Adolf Hitler was admitted as the seventh member of the inner cell. In 1920 the organization's name was again changed to the National Socialist German Workers' Party and Hitler began muscling Drexler...
Axis air raids on Malta have climbed to a new peak of intensity, renewing suspicion that Adolf Hitler may be concentrating on efforts to knock out Britain's central Mediterranean base before spring...
...Adolf Hitler appointed a successor to Rudolf Hess as second in the Nazi line of succession, following porcine Hermann Goring. The world had heard little of the appointee, Martin Bormann, but he was soundly qualified...
...Adolf Hitler has given Martin Bormann greater powers than any Party official ever had before. He can (theoretically) veto any law, must countersign all official appointments. He will often exercise these powers clad in one of his two dozen pairs of riding breeches. He cannot ride a horse...