Word: choosers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler was full of haste last week. He wanted to crush the Russians at once. If he did not, if the war dragged into the winter, he might no longer be the chooser of campaigns. He was an old hand at breaking promises, but there was one promise-made, not to statesmen of the so-called plutocracies, but to his own people-that he did not want to break, for his power could break with it. He made it on the last day of 1940: "The year 1941 will bring consummation of the greatest victory in our history...