Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned down Bobby Jones, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler (who had just mobilized an unexpected 6,401,210 Nazi votes in Germany) to make Mohandas K. Gandhi Man of 1930. He was in jail when his selection was announced in TIME-for launching civil disobedience to get the British out of India. Next year was "a lean year for everybody," as old Ramsay MacDonald put it: Man of 1931 was Pierre Laval, picked for having steered France prosperously through 12 months which had meant breadlines in almost every other land (Laval hasn't had a good year since...
Another Gamble. As the year drew to a close, the Germans found their border invaded and themselves in a position where they, in turn, preferred a great gamble to a continued, steady, losing retreat. Adolf Hitler had withdrawn into the shadows and Heinrich Himmler was Germany's Man of 1944. Himmler had held the people and the Army in line while he squeezed them for the last ounces of German strength. Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, the cold, wily Junker who mounted the December counteroffensive, was the Man of the Hour...
Rudolf Hess, hairy; fervent disciple of Adolf Hitler, onetime No. 3 Nazi, who became the United Kingdom's No. 1 prisoner of war when he parachuted into England in 1941, was reported to be in a high state of "nervous and mental" deterioration, cutting up so much it required the strength of 30 guards to subdue...
Terboven purred with pleasure and circulated the slogan: "Let us follow our leaders, Quisling, Hamsun,* and Berggrav." The people of Norway muttered "pacifist" at mention of their Bishop's name. But Berggrav held fast. Adolf Hitler had promised Norway religious freedom and a legally constituted government. In the interests of peace and order, the Bishop proposed to do his part...
...Adolf Hitler had said: "I promise you ... I could destroy the Church in a few years. It is hollow and false and rotten through and through." In the years between wars the churches did less than they might have to disprove this slander. Like many of Europe's churches, the Lutheran Church of Norway was a state establishment. Pastors living comfortably on state-provided farms and holdings were often held suspect by their poorer neighbors. Many of the common people thought them complacent and bourgeois; young intellectuals scoffed at both the Church...