Word: adolf
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...Before Adolf Hitler came to power, Berlin's house of Ullstein was the biggest, wealthiest publishing company in Europe. It published Germany's biggest newspaper, the Berliner Morgenpost (circ. 600,000), its biggest illustrated magazine, the famed Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung (circ. 2,000,000), and its most influential weekly, the Grüne Post (circ. 1,000,000). The House of Ullstein also published three other Berlin daily newspapers, two weeklies, ten monthlies and some 2,000,000 books a year. Its headquarters occupied a city block along Berlin's Kochstrasse, and it employed 10,000 workers...
...bought the money-losing Neue Berliner Tageblatt (circ. 4,000). He put it on its feet, bought other moribund newspapers and kept expanding. After his death in 1899, his five sons-Hans, Louis, Franz, Rudolf, Hermann-proved equally shrewd, expanded more. They made one big mistake: they thought Adolf Hitler's Jew-baiting was merely campaign oratory. When they still had time to turn the tremendous power of their newspapers and magazines against the rise of Naziism, the Ullstein brothers did nothing. When Hitler came to power, it was too late...
...brief statement in December, Harvard reported that the inclusion on the War Memorial Plaque in Memorial Church of Adolf Sannwald, a Divinity student from 1924 to 1925, was a mistake and his name would be removed. Sannwald, a pastor of a church in Stuttgart, was drafted as a "common soldier" in June of 1942 and sent to Russia. At the time of his death a year later, however, he was serving as a chaplain...
MAJOR GENERAL ADOLF HEUSINGER, 55, wartime chief of operations for the General Staff. He served on the General Staff for 22 years in all, spent part of his forced postwar retirement writing a book of memoirs which dealt mainly with the German officer's problem of carrying out orders in which he did not believe...
Austria's prewar democracy had many pallbearers, but the most prominent, after Adolf Hitler, was a good-looking young blueblood named Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. He was a fascist when the world barely knew what the word meant. In 1923, he stood by Hitler's side in the unsuccessful Munich beer hall Putsch. Back in Austria, he was fond of bleating such sentiments as: "We have much in common with the German Nazis . . . Austria will go fascist sooner or later. Better sooner than later . . . Asiatic heads [meaning Jews] will soon roll in the sands...