Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fresh German troops were reported moving last week toward the Russian front, where Adolf Hitler was trying desperately to regain the initiative. The fact that Hitler had lost the initiative in Russia led many a cozy armchair strategist to forget that on most other actual or potential fronts the initiative was Hitler's or Japan...
...Home Folks. Yet men with keen ears thought that Axis propaganda weapons were getting blunt from over work: global war to the death was just too big. German setbacks in Russia were al most too big for the master propagandist, Adolf Hitler, himself. His address to his people, on the ninth anniversary of his leadership, sounded like an old phono graph record grinding away under a groove-stuck needle: "Russian winter . . . many . . plutocratic . Russian warmongers . . . winter. . . ." innocent Ger Hitler almost said in so many words that it would do the German people no good to throw the Nazis...
...Parisians the dream of history is caught in the web of streets where the Nazis last week stolidly laid waste-in preparation, it was said, for a rebuilding job designed by no less an architect than Adolf Hitler. A brave letter appeared in Figaro: "Paris, which in June of 1940 miraculously escaped trial by fire and the horror of destruction, is unexpectedly menaced by new destruction." The letter was signed by a group of intellectuals and painters, including Jean Giraudoux, Paul Valery, Paul Morand, Jean Cocteau, Andre Derain. The man in the street, passing the wreckers at work, simply muttered...
...take an ironic slap in the face when these bulletins are followed by a peachy little vocal trio telling us in anemic harmony to Remember Pearl Harbor, to Keep 'Em Flying, and that We Did It Before And We'll Do It Again, and all right for you, Adolf Hitler, you just stop being so mean or we'll give you a great big slap on the wrist, you nasty thing...
...same Berlin broadcast that told of the fall of Bengasi last week carried another piece of news. For his work in Libya, Adolf Hitler had upped tough Tank Expert General Erwin Rommel to the grade of Field Marshal, Second Class...