Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zone, anti-U.S. organizations began to crystallize. Most of them consisted only of a dozen or so young men who just seemed fond of playing cops & robbers. So. in their early days, did some of Adolf Hitler's brown shirts...
Heroine. Olga Tschechowa,* nee Knipper, born in the Russian Caucasus, fled in 1921 to Germany, where she became a cinema celebrity and ostensibly a great chum of Adolf Hitler. All during the war, said the Russians last week, she had really been a Russian spy, using her chauffeur to get through to Moscow the tiny, gold-covered notebooks in which she jotted the requests which Nazi bigwigs wanted her to put to Adolf. During the battle of Berlin, she hid in a bomb shelter, was rescued, in the best movie spy tradition, by a Red Army colonel...
...Adolf Hitler, onetime world's foremost book-banner, became a banned author in Germany. A German "sifting committee" blacklisted Mem Kampf, also hung verboten signs on the works of Historian Oswald Spengler, Novelist Knut Hamsun, Explorer Sven Hedin, some 2,000 other writers...
...Adolf Hitler himself may still be lurking somewhere, according to the Netherlands radio. It quoted General Dwight D. Eisenhower as saying that there was "reason to believe" Hitler was still alive...
Still in their minds was Adolf Hitler's triumphal visit to Paris in June, 1940. He nursed three ambitions: to sign the armistice at Compiègne, to visit Napoleon's tomb and to enjoy a performance of the Paris Opéra. Hitler and his entourage were solicitously shepherded around the Opéra by agile, gypsylike ballet master Serge Lifar and the massive pro-German Wagnerian soprano, Mme. Germaine Lubin. Next night the opera company put on a command performance...