Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he fled to Germany, just before World War II, he took with him a Manchester show girl, whom he married, although he had left a wife in England. Paul Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine paid him $75 a month. Adolf Hitler bestowed on him the War Merit Cross, First Class. According to his own statement, he became a naturalized German citizen. The British nicknamed him "Lord Haw-Haw" and they laughed at him. But they never forgot his taunts at Britain...
When Neville Chamberlain flew to Berchtesgaden to placate Adolf Hitler in September 1938, he upset the plans of top-ranking German officers. They were getting ready to arrest Hitler...
...knew its own child, and would nurture it. Last week in Moscow, Russia followed its accolade of the Rumanian Government and its boss, Premier Peter Groza, by giving Groza a present to take home. The present: a general easing of the armistice terms given to Rumania when she abandoned" Adolf Hitler and his works a year ago. Items: ¶ Russia agreed to a "request" to return control of Rumanian railroads, restore part of Rumania's Black Sea and Danube shipping fleets (including a flea-bitten fleet of small warcraft) taken as prizes...
...illustrates the sordidness and guilt of all Germans. Far from unauthentic, they are passionately ferocious caricatures of the globally ubiquitous petty bourgeois at his worst-a worst already recorded by such masters as Flaubert. Their sordid motives and moral density probably reached an all-time low in the world Adolf Hitler gave them to live in-a world which both encouraged and required the type. In spite of his zeal, Author-Director Mikhail Romm has not made an adequate image of the German people. But he has made a more than adequately exciting movie-powerfully acted, and conceived and directed...
...defendants, all citizens of Rüsselsheim, had lynched the fliers in a spasm of revenge. The court's verdict: freedom for one defendant, long imprisonment for three, death for seven. Among them: Frau Witzler. She was an old woman; she must have been a big girl when Adolf Hitler, the Führer, was born...