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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Rope for Haw-Haw | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: If... | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Grist for Groza | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 24, 1945 | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Seven Who Must Hang | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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