Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good Nazis know, the great German Army was betrayed and brought down by a collapsing home front. That could never happen this time; Führer Adolf Hitler had taken measures. Yet this week Hitler was face to face with another of the savage ironies of history: the great German Army was showing signs of caving in. Would the ironbound Nazi home front be betrayed and brought down in 1944 by a collapsing, demoralized Wehrmacht...
...panic of fear and repression that followed the attempted assassination, Adolf Hitler turned, as though by blind instinct, to his old party comrades, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, men as tightly and irrevocably bound to the Nazi system as himself. But to the Army they were no symbols of confidence. And so as a new Chief of the Army General Staff, the Führer chose a different sort of man. He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian...
...moment, after he heard of the bomb attempt on Adolf Hitler, the firm earth had seemed to shake. He "saw visions of the Apocalypse...
...Germany last week the penalty for criticism of the Leader was still death. But Adolf Hitler had indeed been "criticized"; the echoes of the blast were reverberating through the ranks of the German Army...
Prince Gustaf Adolf, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince, gave his three young daughters, Princesses Desiree, 6, Birgitta, 7, and Margaretha, 9, the biggest treat of all: the circus...