Word: berliner
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Hitler by now lived and worked entirely underground, in a hidden mausoleum known as the Führerbunker. Dug in next to the Reich Chancellery in central Berlin, the bunker was nearly 60 ft. below street level; its earth-covered roof was 16 ft. thick (but leaky). It had 30 rooms, their concrete walls painted battleship gray. A staff of about 500 came and went. Here the Führer ate, slept, gave orders, shouted, raged. "Hitler never saw another sunrise or sunset after January," said an aide...
...April a Red Army force of 2.5 million had advanced to the Oder River, scarcely 50 miles east of Berlin. Meanwhile, the U.S. Ninth Army had nearly reached the Elbe, about 50 miles to the west. Hitler talked of leaving Berlin by April 20, his 56th birthday, of flying south to organize an invulnerable redoubt in the Alpine forests of Bavaria. But then came fits of wild euphoria, when he ordered his shattered forces to counterattack. "The Russians have overextended themselves so much that the decisive battle can be won at Berlin," he declared. Then came fits of despair, when...
...field headquarters near the Elbe, Lieut. General William Simpson was working on his plans to seize Berlin. There was little evidence of German opposition. Simpson's U.S. 2nd Armored and 83rd Infantry divisions would race right up the autobahn to the capital. Then Lieut. General Omar Bradley summoned him back to headquarters in Wiesbaden. "You have to stop right where you are," Bradley said. "You can't go any farther. You must pull back across the Elbe...
...Where in hell did this come from?" said Simpson. "I could be in Berlin in 24 hours!" Bradley: "I just got it from...
...Changwei has shot many of Chinese cinema's most imperial tours de force?Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Jiang Wen's Devils at the Doorstep. But his directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from its complex script (by the novelist Li Qiang), its imperfect characters and its emotional restraint in depicting...