Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost ended sooner. In the gloomy dawn of May Day a German colonel bearing a huge white flag appeared at a ruined side street held by the Russians. "Will the Soviet Command receive emissaries to discuss negotiations?" he asked. Red Army Major Belousov agreed and walked with the Germans toward their lines, trailed by a Russian soldier with a field telephone. Suddenly a shot cracked out. Belousov dropped with a Nazi sniper's bullet through his head...
...final mark of sterner days to come, Major General Thomas A. Terry, of the Second Service Command, announced that G.I.s and officers liberated from prison camps in Germany would be assigned to operate prison camps in New York, New Jersey and Delaware...
...back and through the head by his partisan executioners, lay dead in Milan (see below). Adolf Hitler had been buried, dead or alive, in the rubble of his collapsing Third Reich. Whether or not he had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage (as reported from Stockholm), or had "fallen in his command post at the Reich chancellery" (as reported by the Hamburg radio, which said that he had been succeeded as Führer by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz), or was a prisoner of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler as a political force had been expunged. If he were indeed dead...
...city. That evening Mussolini, as chief of the Republican Fascist Government, and his War Minister, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, met with partisan representatives. Terms of surrender "were discussed. Mussolini cried: "The Germans have betrayed me!" Bombastically he asked for one hour's time to inform the German High Command of his displeasure...
...said: 1) that the war really had been lost since last July 20, the day the bomb attempt on Hitler's life failed; 2) that Hitler and Goebbels were in Berlin, and probably would die there; 3) that Goring, who had been officially reported relieved of his Luftwaffe command because of "acute heart disease," was out of the picture-"Nobody talks about Goring any more"; 4) that Himmler was at Salzburg, in the national redoubt; 5) that the redoubt was an indefensible shadow fortress, a myth; and 6) that the war would not last more than a few days...