Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the war against Adolf Hitler had created such a manpower shortage in Canada that Paul Ausborn, who has devoted 20 of his 50 years to fighting Hitler, got a job as a seasonal laborer in a Winnipeg sugar-beet plant...
...year 1942 began badly for Adolf Hitler, with dissension in his High Command and before year's end, retreats on the bitter front in Russia. It brought sabotage, riots and hardening resistance among the people of the occupied countries. Death took from him some of his strongest men. In Africa, a new front threatened the underbelly of his Axis stronghold...
...complete was his failure as a judge of Nazi Germany. In the first winter of the war, when he wrote his book, he still could say that unless Germany won by June 1940, she would be beaten by November and a "fair and honorable peace" could be dictated on Adolf Hitler's doorstep. He still wrote of the "honesty of the intentions which inspired me . .. and which afforded the Nazi Government every opportunity for frank cooperation with me." He still was convinced "that the right policy was to carry conciliation to its utmost point before abandoning hope of agreement...
Last week, as the New Year broke, Adolf Hitler stood before his people to speak to them of 1943. The Führer's hair was greying and there were new lines in his face. The fear of defeat was in the air in Germany; he must find words to counter it. 1943 was an ominous year, the fourth year of the war. A generation ago, Germans remembered, the fourth year of war brought defeat and disaster...
...whole world knew what the alternative would have been. The man who knew it best of all was Adolf Hitler, who found his past accomplishments turning into dust...