Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adolf Hitler's ex-bodyguard, Sepp Dietrich, strove mightily to please when questioned by Allied captors. Choice Dietrich characterizations of the old Hitler Gang...
...When Adolf Hitler came in, Heinrich Hollands got out. He gave up his job as foreman of an Aachen newspaper composing room, and retired on a small pension rather than serve the Nazis. U.S. Psychological Warfare officers found him, when they went looking for a German to help them print a four-page weekly, the Aachener Nachrichten. Soon he was doing some of the editing; Army officers found that it was easier to make an editor out of) a printer than to make non-Nazis out of the available German editors...
...mystery of the fake funeral picture of Adolf Hitler, which Argentina's Ahora said that it received by telephoto from Berlin (TIME, July 2), was solved. It proved to be a retouched 1934 photograph of Austria's Chancellor Dollfuss, murdered by Hitler's Nazi gunmen, lying in state (see cut). Somebody had simply dubbed in Hitler's face...
...tidbit level, the diary does better. Ciano says that Ribbentrop bet him a collection of antique arms against an Italian painting that Britain and France would not go to war if Germany invaded Poland. (Ribbentrop never paid up.) Ciano identifies Adolf Hitler's mistress during the summer of 1939 as one Sigrid von Lappus, and describes her as having "beautiful quiet eyes, regular features and a magnificent body...
...should love nothing more dearly than a family," Adolf Hitler told the Nazi Women's Auxiliary before the war. "When I feel I have accomplished my historic mission, I intend to enjoy the private life which I have thus far denied myself...