Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German High Command announced in Berlin tonight that two British cruisers were hit by heavy-caliber bombs and that the German raiders and the British defense force each lost two planes...
...objective reports of the last days of besieged Warsaw agree that the Germans refused point-blank to allow the garrison to evacuate non-combatants from the city. Herr Hitler's variorum: "Sheer sympathy for women and children caused me to make an offer to those in command of Warsaw at least to let civilian inhabitants leave the city. . . . The proud Polish commander of the city did not even condescend to reply...
...Duce, he has performed the difficult feat of remaining neutral between those who want to stay neutral in the war and those who want to join Germany. Meanwhile, his power has noticeably waned. For one reason or another he handed over to the Prince of Piedmont the command of half the Italian Army. The pay of his own Fascist militiamen, who formed the regime's counter-revolutionary force, was suddenly reduced from eight lire (40?) a day to one lira, at the same time that the Army private's pay was increased from a few centesimi...
Accompanied by Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, and Heinrich Himmler, Chief of Secret Police, Victor Hitler drove through the wreckage to a reviewing stand set up in the least damaged part of the city, the diplomatic sector. There he stood from 12:30 until 2:30 as picked troops goose-stepped past...
...report that made Berlin burn was based on the H. R. Knickerbocker (Hearst) report that the German high command had salted huge fortunes away in foreign lands against the day of defeat (TIME, Oct. 2). The announcer called Knickerbocker direct ("Do you hear us, Mr. Knickerbocker?"), offered him, on behalf of Goebbels, a tenth of all the cached wealth he could locate. When he failed to reply in 36 hours, a sizzling Berlin announcer blurted: "The British Ministry of Lies has bought the well-known American journalist, Knickerbocker . . . the louse...