Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance, the Germans, who thought that they were there for keeps, revised Holland's Who's Who during the occupation, garnishing it with a title-page photograph of Adolf Hitler and eight pages of Dutch "patriots" who were killed by their countrymen for serving the invaders...
...champagne salesman who had risen to become Foreign Minister to Adolf Hitler, stood before the bar, adjusted headphones with shaking hands, listened. Again the sentence: death. Ribbentrop (whose von turned out to be a social-climbing affectation) quivered, seemed about to fall. The M.P.'s helped him from the courtroom...
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Adolf Hitler's High Command...
...Adolf Hitler's prewar luxury yacht, the 375-ft. Grille, kicked up a bidding war among Britons who saw it as a money-making attraction. One bidder thought he had nabbed it for only $306,660; but the Admiralty said the end was not yet. Higher bids were in sight...
Silently, seriously, Austria's Parliament met in its badly bombed white building near what was lately called the Adolf Hitler Platz. Representatives of one of the weakest nations in Europe, they nevertheless held their ground while Figl read to them what amounted to a Russian attempt to dictate Austrian legislation. The Parliament had before it Figl's bill to nationalize 81 industries, amounting to 50% of the country's production. The Russian note asked for 25 exceptions on the ground that they were "German assets" and therefore could be seized by Russia under the Potsdam agreement...