Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German representatives, appointed last week, included Lieut. General Hans Speidel, once Rommel's chief of staff, and Lieut. General Adolf von Heussinger. Both had been arrested by the Gestapo after the discovery of the plot on Hitler's life in July...
...Munich, police arrested Merchant Georg Brunner, 50, for illegally owning and trying to peddle a suitcase full of government-confiscated Adolf Hitler memorabilia including: several autographed copies of Mein Kampf, an initialed steel pocket watch, three engraved Hitler-head coins made in honor of his 50th birthday, his World War I army identity card, his 1933 nomination as Chancellor...
...What Junk?" In Hitler Directs His War, Bryn Mawr History Professor Felix Gilbert has edited the fragments with main attention to the temper and character of Adolf Hitler, reduced many technical and tactical sessions to synopsis treatment in an appendix. One of the first things that struck Editor Gilbert was the way Hitler's personality dominated the conferences-and the vindictive "meanness" of the man's mind. One example: his treatment of hard-pressed Field Marshal von Kluge, whom he called back from the Eastern Front on July 26, 1943, to inform him that some of his Panzer...
...hunter, he popularized tennis in Sweden as a young man, played it until he was 88. Last January he was unable for the first time in 42 years to deliver his annual address at the opening of Parliament; it was read for him by his son Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, who this week at 67 became King Gustaf VI. Sweden's new heir apparent: Prince Carl Gustaf, 4, grandson of the new King...
...number of German experts who escaped to Argentina after World War II. Now working as adviser on V-weapons for the Argentine Air Ministry is Werner Baumbach, onetime Luftwaffe bomber pilot who claims to have sunk 300,000 tons of British shipping. Another Air Ministry adviser is Adolf Galland, onetime Inspector General of the Luftwaffe Fighter Command. Working with Designer Tank is Hans Ulrich Rudel, a one-legged whirlwind credited with sinking the Russian battleship Marat and two cruisers, as well as knocking out a record of 532 tanks...