Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that week Adolf Hitler's death had been announced, Berlin had fallen after twelve days of hideous street fighting. German armies had surrendered piecemeal, at a rate that staggered the imagination: an estimated 1,000,000 troops yielded up to Field Marshal Alexander in Italy, perhaps another million to Field Marshal Montgomery in north Germany, possibly 400,000 to General Devers in Austria...
...Adolf Hitler had died more deaths in one week than any man in history...
...Austria's Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, who was treated first to Adolf Hitler's rage at Berchtesgaden, then to his country's Anschluss by the Nazi Reich, finally to seven years' captivity...
...Adolf Hitler loved music-especially Wagner. In Mein Kampf, he had written: "My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth master knew no bounds." The Third Reich, Hitler said, had its foundations in the German myths of Composer Richard Wagner, and the shrine at Wagner's Bayreuth was called "the Olympus of German art." In 1938 Hitler ordered that the military music of his favorite composer be used at all of Nürnberg's pagan rallies, and he sat for long hours at Berchtesgaden listening to recordings of Siegfried...
Munich, heart of Nazidom and Germany's third largest city, was torn by revolution but fought savagely nevertheless. The U.S. Seventh Army had plunged 20 miles through defenseless countryside to the outskirts of the old city where Adolf Hitler hatched his movement in a beer hall. Then suddenly nests of SS men had exploded into action and forced the Americans to battle their...