Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MOSCOW--The Russian Army swept in today to complete Adolf Hitler's greatest military disaster--utter defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad with a loss of more than 1,000,000 men--and reported that total victory would be won in a matter of hours...
...Reich which Adolf Hitler said would last a thousand years is ten years old this week. In one decade it has all but spanned a life's cycle, from depression's depths to a pinnacle of power on which it is now tottering. With 990 years to go, the Nazi Reich this week told its people: "We must keep cool. The situation is critical. We are facing an enemy superior in numbers, in everything...
Death of a Republic. On the evening of Jan. 30, 1933, the boots of the brown-clad Storm Troops beat like thudding drums along the Wilhelmstrasse beneath a flaming canopy of torches. Leaning far out over the Reich's Chancellery balcony, Adolf Hitler, with sparkling eyes, watched them march past. Battalion after battalion swung by, bands crashing out the song Die Fahne Hoch. ... In a nearby window, a rocklike silhouette, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg gazed on the parade with age-dimmed eyes...
Rumania. Back from Hitler's field headquarters last week came Premier Ion Antonescu after a one-day session with Adolf and several of his top-flight generals. According to reports from Bern, Hitler refused to lighten his demands for Rumanian troops, otherwise help Antonescu preserve his tottering regime. Instead, Hitler reportedly demanded more Rumanian petroleum and troops, less noise. In Geneva last week was pro-British Grigore Gafencu, onetime Rumanian Foreign Minister, the logical man to extend any peace overtures to Allied representatives...
...loomed: If widespread revolutions broke out in the Balkans it might be wise for Turkey to establish order in the name of the Allies, risk war against Germany. Allied and Axis diplomats in Ankara last week noted that Ambassador Franz von Papen had gone to Berlin to confer with Adolf Hitler...