Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though his most implacable enemies admit his genius as a propaganda technician, few people in Germany, even in the Nazi Party, have any personal admiration for warp-minded, clubfooted Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. But, according to reliable information from Germany last week, Adolf Hitler has made his ambitious Propaganda Minister unchallenged Nazi leader on the home front...
Last week the American Jewish Congress asked the United Nations to do what could be done to save 5,000,000 Jews in Europe from extermination this year. Anyone who thought that the Congress exaggerated the danger had only to read Adolf Hitler's prophecy to Nazi Party members last week: "This struggle will end . . . with the extinction of Jewry in Europe...
Goebbels' ascendancy did not astonish those who know him and Germany. He has been portrayed to the world as a jack-rabbity little mouthpiece for Adolf Hitler. Actually, he is smart. He has a kind of courage. He understands the forces at work in the world well enough to pervert their meanings into brass-bold and effective propaganda. And it has long been apparent that when the Third Reich came to crisis-as it is now in crisis-power would go either to Goebbels' radical "leftist" wing of the Nazi Party, or to a "rightist" army clique...
...Adolf Hitler remained strangely hidden, strangely silent. Berlin suggested that he was resting after arduous labors on the Russian front. On the thin shoulders of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels fell the job of exhorting the German people: "Are you willing to continue the war with wild determination, unshaken by all vicissitudes of fate...
...Adolf Hitler was absent. In his stead, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop last week presented the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle to Dr. T. M. Kivimäki, Finland's Minister to Berlin...