Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Adolf Hitler last Oct. 1. By his measure of German gain & loss, the Allies last week still had to inflict a definitive defeat upon the Axis. Rommel was fleeing through Libya and the Allies were at his back in Tunisia, but the Germans were still in North Africa, astride the Mediterranean. The Russians were attacking on ever-widening fronts, but the Germans were still entrenched on those fronts. From Rzhev to Casablanca the Allies had greatly improved their positions, but they still had to translate these positions into victory...
...meeting with Adolf Hitler and other Axis leaders to lay plans fora new arrangement to replace the defunct armistice...
Police finally caught up with him on Christmas Eve 1941, put him in Pretoria jail. There he spoke only German (his English is perfect), aped Hitler's appearance, gave the Nazi salute, declared: "God sent Adolf Hitler to save Germany and all oppressed mankind." He said he intended to give South Africans the benefit of his trained leadership "after the war has ended in the inevitable Axis victory...
Gustav Siegfried Eins is a "secret" radio station which supposedly speaks for some of the Wehrmacht's Prussian commanders. Apparently immune from the Gestapo and possibly beyond its reach, the station persistently criticizes Adolf Hitler's conduct of the war and gives the impression that Hitler and his Junkers are fighting each other for control of the Army...
...dismissal, said the immediate reason was that last autumn he opposed a proposal to withdraw from Russia and concentrate on an all-out Mediterranean offensive. One change in Nazi command was apparently for merit alone: the Luftwaffe's new fighter chief, 30-year-old Gen eral Adolf Galland, was credited with upward of 100 enemy planes, had won the cherished Knight's Cross, and was now Germany's youngest general...