Word: adolf
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...stories are better known or more poorly documented than that of the death of Adolf Hitler. Popular imagination the world over has been quick to seize on the macabre details of those last days in the bunker in flaming Berlin, where a mad genius cringed in the rain of Allied bombs and felt the walls of his terrible world closing in upon him. The suicide of his scheming henchman Goebbels, the defection of those who fattened on the blood he had spilled, the last-minute marriage with his blowzy mistress Eva Braun, the suicide pact they made together...
Surely the whites of South Africa knew what they wanted and what they were going to get when they voted for "Adolf" Strydom Now they have him ... The boys in the Kremlin must be licking their chops over conditions there...
...first member of Adolf Hitler's Cabinet to visit Britain since Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in 1941, pink-cheeked Financial Wizard Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, 78, now a rapidly rising Düsseldorf banker, moseyed into London. In and out of courts and jails for five postwar years, Dr. Schacht now played the role of a cagey grandpa, beaming craftily, bustling to see old acquaintances, dropping plugs for his recently published memoirs, My First Seventy-Six Years. Interviewed by indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany...
...hint that Peking might be ready to "enter into negotiations with the responsible local authorities in Formosa." There was no question of Formosan independence, Chou insisted. But "conditions permitting, [the Communists] are prepared to seek the liberation of Formosa by peaceful means." "Peaceful means" was a phrase which Adolf Hitler used when he grabbed Czechoslovakia in 1939, and in Peking's vocabulary, it seems to mean the same thing...
...footnote to his other unsavory accomplishments, Adolf Hitler was revealed by Dr. Oron J. Hale, University of Virginia history professor and former U.S. Commissioner for Bavaria, to have been one of modern history's most accomplished tax dodgers. According to Hale, whose study in the American Historical Review is based on an analysis of Hitler's income-tax forms seized in Munich at war's end, Hitler owed the government some $150,000 in 1934, after his first year as Reich Chancellor. In December 1934, without any formal legal action or the knowledge of the German public...