Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Stettinius and Nelson Rockefeller, with Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla and a small army of experts like Adolf Berle, Avra Warren, Oscar Cox, Leo Pasvolsky and Senator Warren Austin, won Latin praise...
...Adolf Hitler issued an order of the day to his troops, on the tenth anniversary of compulsory military service under the swastika. He rehashed his personal nightmare of German martyrdom, and concluded: "We witness both in the east and the west what our people would have to face. Our task is therefore clear: to put up resistance and to wear down our enemies so long that, in the end, they will get tired and will yet be broken...
...When the Yanks captured their western ends, the Germans promptly set off the long-prepared demolition charges - huge quantities of dynamite -and blew them up. At Duisburg they blew up the three bridges still standing. Under cover of darkness at Ürdingen, 19 U.S. volunteers ventured out on the Adolf Hitler Autobahn bridge - fully aware that the Germans might blow it at any moment - to find and cut the demolition wires. They were silhouetted in the light of burning tar and chased back off the bridge by enemy gunfire; minutes later the bridge was blown...
Since 1942, when the British and U.S. air forces really began to work over Germany, they have subtly insulted Adolf Hitler by ignoring his fabulous mountain castle at Berchtesgaden. Last week it seemed for a while that the insult had been spoiled. Berchtesgaden had been attacked by U.S. Thunderbolts from Italy...
...days when it was proper for U.S. newsmen to be on good terms with Adolf Hitler, William Randolph Hearst's high-strung, highly paid and highly touted Karl H. von Wiegand led the pack. Publicity handouts called him the "personal acquaintance of Chancellor Adolf Hitler for more than 17 years [who] has had more interviews and discussions with the German Chancellor than any other American. . . ." When Hitler swept across France in 1940, Von Wiegand, with his thick spectacles and his gold-handled walking stick, was flown by the Germans to Paris...