Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago, on the German Heroes' Memorial Day (March 15), Adolf Hitler told his people: "The Bolshevik hordes, which could not be defeated this winter by the German soldiers . . . will in the coming summer be crushed to utter destruction." Last week, Heroes' Memorial Day was postponed without explanation...
...bulletin from Berchtesgaden, no communique from the Reich Chancellery told the German people and the world where Adolf Hitler was. He had not spoken or made any public appearance for four months and a half (a few public statements had been read for him). The U.S. State Department had seen reports that Hitler had suffered a complete nervous breakdown, added that these reports were wholly unconfirmed. Stockholm reported that a famed brain surgeon, Professor Herbert Olivecrona, had been in Germany to treat an important patient...
...Government. Last week in Pretoria, at the end of the Union's longest treason trial, the judge asked sneer-faced Sydney if he wished to say anything. Up whipped Sydney's arm in a Nazi salute. Out whipped the words, in harsh Afrikaans: "Long live Adolf Hitler, long live National Socialist South Africa. I expected to die if I came back and I'm not afraid to do so, To hell with your mercy...
...days after Timoshenko's breakthrough, the Russians won an even bigger victory-the capture of Rzhev. It was from Rzhev, 140 miles northwest of Moscow, that the Germans began the powerful drive on Russia's capital in the autumn of 1941 which almost landed Adolf Hitler inside the Kremlin. It was the city which, above all others, Hitler had to hold if he hoped to try again...
Berlin had assured the German people that Adolf Hitler intends to strike again at the Russians this year. His armies in the north last week were acting as though they hoped only to find a line where they could stand and hold the Russians beyond the borders of the Greater Reich...