Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outsider in the reverse-snob clannishness of the totally blind; yet he cherishes his tentative friendships. There is Little Jens, a cripple locked in creaky thongs and trusses, who has a gentle faith that all the sightless are under God's special bless ing. There is Adolf, who endlessly rubs his eyes so that he can "see" the spray of flames that constitutes his last childhood memory of the sighted world. Author Bjarnhof sensitively captures the circular, repetitive agony of a blind man's brooding. As he makes poignantly clear, the blind feel like nature...
...Luftwaffe fail to return the next night? What brought on this particularly savage sortie, the last and worst of the blitz? Collier can only make a guess. The night before, an insomnia-ridden Adolf Hitler had poked irritably at the log fire in his Bavarian mountain-lodge retreat; a captive audience of Nazi underlings yawned in their teacups. Then Hitler's secretary, Martin Bormann, and Pilot Hans Baur brought up the recent British raid on Berlin; was not some reprisal in order? Though every available aircraft was being readied for top-secret Operation Barbarossa (the attack on Russia), Hitler...