Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prussian military science made one-front war an axiom. Otto von Bismarck never deviated from the axiom and thereby gained an empire. Wilhelm II disregarded it and thereby lost the empire. Adolf Hitler based his strategy on it. Now, fretting over the map of beleaguered Europe, the Führer could see how completely his plans for one-front war had been thwarted...
...carefully, but they had not left margin enough for the imponderables. They had miscalculated and might still be miscalculating Russian strength. They had overestimated their own air power, had not foreseen the emergence of British-American air power. They had been caught short by their weaknesses in southern Europe. Adolf Hitler might well ponder the words of Prussian Karl von Clausewitz, father of modern strategy...
...second front" in the west. But the British and Americans could point without apology to their share in the coalition war. A "second front," matching the Russian effort, would come when the Nazi heartland had been properly softened. The Allied argument was one of timing and method. In that, Adolf Hitler could take scant comfort...
Would Germany fall with its Nazis? Or, through the Army, find survival without them? In great part, the answer must be made in the end by Great Britain, the U.S.-and Soviet Russia. But the Nazis still own Germany. Last week Paul Joseph Goebbels, who two years ago was Adolf Hitler's mainstay at home, piped a cry to all Germans...
...effort" in an affidavit filed in Manhattan by his third wife, Martha ("Mickey") Devine, ex-Ziegfeld beauty. She wanted a separation and $60,000-a-year alimony. She said Dodge had once told her: "This is a war as to who will rule the world, between Adolf and Joe, and my vote is for Adolf...