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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words you quote from Herman Tal-madge's book [Nov. 14] sound vaguely familiar; Adolf Hitler had much the same feelings in regard to racial mixture. I never thought that the people of the U.S., or even of Georgia, would read even one word of such stupid filth. The best place for trash like Talmadge is the trash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...five-member Supreme Military Council was formed to assume direct operational command over West German armed forces, subject to policy directives of Civilian Theodor Blank's Defense Ministry. Chairman of the council and, in effect, postwar West Germany's chief of staff will be Lieut. General Adolf Heusinger. 58. a small (5 ft. 6 in.), sandy-haired army veteran who began his career as a cadet in World War 1, rose to be Wehrmacht chief of operations in 1940, was standing at Hitler's side when the bomb exploded in the Fuhrer's East Prussian headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: An Army Is Born | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...blizzards, falling with boot-broken backs. First Icelander ever to win a Nobel Prize, he hoped that Iceland's tax collectors "will leave me 10% for brandy." Early next month, Leftist Laxness will get his gold medal, diploma and $36.720 jackpot from Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 7, 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...Hitler shot himself. I carried his body out of the bunker and then helped pour the gasoline over it." He watched for five minutes while flames devoured the leader of the master race. If Linge spoke the truth, this was at last the incontrovertible eyewitness testimony needed to declare Adolf Hitler legally dead and put a period to the tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Wagnerian Finale | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...Adolf Hitler proclaimed Porsche a Nazi hero, commissioned him to design the Third Reich's famous "people's car" (Volkswagen). Porsche produced a design, but the Nazis, who built only 200, abandoned the project (after milking some 300,000 Germans for advance payments) and assigned Porsche to design weapons, notably the famed Tiger tank. In 1945, he was arrested by French troops and after a trial, jailed for two years as a war criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Sportwagen King | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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