Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week after Queen Wilhelmina went on record for a free Netherlands Commonwealth, to be democratically governed by all its people (TIME, Dec. 14), Adolf Hitler appointed Dutch Nazi Leader Anton Adrian Mussert "Leader of The Netherlands people...
Taciturn, aging Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, placed by Adolf Hitler "at the permanent disposition" of the French Chief of State, last week clapped hundreds of suspect Frenchmen in jail, tightened frontier surveillance and ordered confiscation of radio sets. Rundstedt had something new to contend with: partisan warfare...
...happy about. His Falangist "Voice of Spain" radio has kept up violent attacks against the United Nations. The newspaper Ya (Now) editorialized: "By clear designation of God, Franco represents and directs the Spanish nation in the most difficult period of her history." From his other onetime ally, Adolf Hitler, Franco received a birthday present of a new German-made automobile. It may have been a reminder of other gifts-of men and war materiel-sent by Hitler and Mussolini when Franco needed their help to defeat the Spanish Loyalists...
...Germany, which had 30 radio stations before the war, has picked up 98 stations in occupied territories (twelve in Russia). Last spring Germany controlled 16,000,000 radio receivers, required schoolteachers to halt lessons long enough to receive daily news bulletins. (Adolf Hitler: "Without motor lorries, without aeroplanes and without loudspeakers we should not have conquered Germany...
Seventeen months after the armistice of Compiegne, the leaders of the Third Republic stood in the dock at Riom to answer war-guilt charges dreamed up by Adolf Hitler. Instead they attacked the Vichy regime, praised General Charles de Gaulle. Delicate, scholarly, 70-year-old onetime Premier Léon Blum raised his grey head proudly and accused his accusers of rank mockery. Cried onetime Premier Edouard Daladier: "We shall make it clear where treason lurked and by whom France was betrayed...