Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Author Adolf Hitler did poorly on the auction block. His personal copy of Mein Kampf, found in the German chancellery at war's end, was offered by Owner Arthur Hillman for bids of $11,200 and up. After four calls and no takers, the auctioneer announced: "We can't let it go for any less. It will be scratched...
...adrift and disgruntled, the Mad Major developed a crush on Adolf Hitler and peddled Nazi propaganda in England. Later he repented and served, a tired old retread, in the Royal Navy. Last week, lonely, broke and 61, he made something of a comeback...
...expected a rational discussion of my arguments . . . But ... the mere mention of the strategic question worked like a spark in a powder barrel. The Fiihrer flew into a fury and directed a stream of completely unfounded attacks on us ... I began to realize that Adolf Hitler simply did not want to see the situation as it was, and that he reacted emotionally against what his intelligence must have told him was right...
Tears from Adolf. Near the end of The Rommel Papers comes a gripping chapter on Rommel's death, written by his son Manfred. After the German reverses in Normandy, Rommel was convinced the jig was up, advised Hitler repeatedly to end the war. Neither Liddell Hart nor Manfred Rommel makes it clear to what extent the general was involved in the plots against Hitler, but one day in October 1944, Rommel was at his home in Herrlingen recovering from the wounds suffered when his staff car was shot up. At about 12 o'clock, a dark green auto...
Back in 1938, Adolf Hitler decided to broaden Munich's Sonnenstrasse as a parade ground for his brown-shirted heroes. Smack in the center of the avenue was the Lutherans' 106-year-old St. Matthew...