Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germans, wondering whatever has become of Adolf Hitler, were startled by an apparently pointless but planted paragraph in Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter. Headed The Man of Genius, it said...
...eight days for denouncing as pro-U.S. the new, tough supervisor of German firms. Argentina Libre (Free Argentina), a strongly democratic weekly closed for more than a year, was allowed to appear again. It started off with a bang, featuring on its front page a cartoon of Adolf Hitler about to be sealed in his coffin. Inside were articles by three ex-deputies, including Socialist Juan Antonio Solari, outspoken critic of the militarists. An editorial announced that the weekly had reappeared as a test of the Government's announced policy of permitting a free press...
Under the Geneva Convention of 1929, the 281,344 captured German soldiers in the U.S. may give the Nazi salute, paste up small pictures of Adolf Hitler, drape the coffin of a departed comrade with the swastika banner. This situation understandably exasperates many U.S. citizens. Last week a letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson suggested that the U.S. Army is well aware that it has the potential core of a future fascism on its hands, that it has already taken many preventive steps lately requested by outraged civilians...
...George Bernard Shaw characterized World War II as "a mere Bubble in the froth of history," scorned the notion that a trial of Adolf Hitler would prevent future wars, predicted that the Führer would probably end up in a vice-regal lodge in Dublin. As for women being able to do anything about keeping the peace, Shaw snorted: "Men are pugnacious and women are very, pugnacious...
...dissonances could kill-and be beamed 3,500 miles-the halls of Berchtesgaden would ring with Adolf Hitler's death yells. Last week the Albert Einstein of music, sad-eyed Composer Arnold Schönberg, took artistic revenue on the man who in 1933 swept him and his cryptic music from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revenge: a recitation based on the booming rhetoric of Byron's Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with string orchestra accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic...