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Word: adolf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peace to attract much-desired foreign capital, and Malan maneuvered to have Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga, a moderate member of the dominant Nationalist Party, succeed him. Last week the Nationalist Party caucus frigidly rebuffed Malan, rejected Havenga, and unanimously elected as Prime Minister a man with the racist principles of Adolf Hitler and some of the Nazi leader's demagogic frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The New Prime Minister | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...FIRST AND THE LAST: THE RISE & FALL OF THE GERMAN FIGHTER FORCES, 1938-1945 (368 pp.]-Adolf Galland-Holf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memories of the Luftwaffe | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...generally into two classes-front-line yarns and headquarters stories. This book, written by one of those fast-rising, baby air generals people joked about in World War II, combines in one man's memoirs both the passion of combat and the perspective of command. Germany's Adolf Galland was made general of the Luftwaffe's fighter arm at 29, after shooting down 94 Allied planes on the Western front. Some of his air-battle stories read almost as fast as the Messerschmitts he flew, and his staff-battle accounts give the clearest picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memories of the Luftwaffe | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...style later perfected by Adolf Hitler, he often rolled on the floor, bit his nails, beat himself over the head, and he "lived in dread of seeing his executioners burst open the door to shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: De-Caesarizing Benito | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...asked one question: When? "It's tomorrow," said Hans softly, as they drove into Berlin. Next day came the bomb-shattering climax to years of plotting on Adolf Hitler's life by Otto, Hans and thousands of others. When that day ended in failure, Hans was in Gestapo custody and Otto was flying back to Madrid for his life. In Madrid, he dyed his blond hair black, went on to Portugal and to the British (who used him to interrogate important German prisoners). Brother Hans lingered under Nazi torture until the night of April 22, 1945. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Man with 1,000 Secrets | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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